Web Information Systems and Technologies

1. Part II: Web Interfaces and Applications

   1. Mashups over the Deep Web

      • Thomas Hornung, Kai Simon, Georg Lausen

      Pages 228-241

   2. A Web-Based Version of a Trivial Game to Promote Galician Culture

      • Miguel R. Luaces, Oscar Pedreira, Ángeles S. Places, Diego Seco

      Pages 242-252

   3. Feeling Expression Using Avatars and Its Consistency for Subjective Annotation

      • Fuyuko Ito, Yasunari Sasaki, Tomoyuki Hiroyasu, Mitsunori Miki

      Pages 253-265

   4. Improving Web Service Discovery with Personalized Goal

      • Sanaullah Nazir, Brahmananda Sapkota, Tomas Vitvar

      Pages 266-277

   5. New Quality Metrics for Web Search Results

      • Panagiotis Takis Metaxas, Lilia Ivanova, Eni Mustafaraj

      Pages 278-292

2. Part III: Society, e-Business and e-Government

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 293-293

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   2. User Acceptance of Internet Banking Service in Malaysia

      • Yee YenYuen, P. H. P. Yeow

      Pages 295-306

   3. Convergence of Internet and TV: The Commercial Viability of P2P Content Delivery

      • Jorn De Boever

      Pages 307-320

   4. Website Service Quality in Ireland: An Empirical Study

      • Regina Connolly

      Pages 321-332

   5. Comparison of Social Classification Systems in a Heterogeneous Environment

      • Steffen Oldenburg

      Pages 333-346

3. Part IV: e-Learning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 347-347

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   2. Web-Based 3D and Haptic Interactive Environments for e-Learning, Simulation, and Training

      • Felix G. Hamza-Lup, Ivan Sopin

      Pages 349-360

   3. A Parameterizable Framework for Replicated Experiments in Virtual 3D Environments

      • Daniel Biella, Wolfram Luther

      Pages 361-374

   4. Web-Based Case Studies for Continuous Professional Development via the ViCoCITY Case Study Support Tool

      • James A. Redmond, Audrey Stenson, Alan Mullally

      Pages 375-389

   5. Transforming a Competency Model to Parameterised Questions in Assessment

      • Onjira Sitthisak, Lester Gilbert, Hugh C. Davis

      Pages 390-403

   6. A New Concept Map Model for E-Learning Environments

      • Antonina Dattolo, Flaminia L. Luccio

      Pages 404-417

4. Back Matter

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This book contains a selection of the best papers from WEBIST 2008 (the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies), held in Funchal, Madeira, in 2008, organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC), and co-sponsored by the Wo- flow Management Coalition (WfMC). The purpose of the WEBIST series of conferences is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the technological advances and business - plications of web-based information systems. The series focuses on four main topic areas, covering different aspects of web information systems, including internet te- nology; web interfaces and applications; society, e-business, and e-government; and e-learning. WEBIST 2008 received 238 paper submissions from more than 40 countries on all continents. A double-blind review process was enforced, with the help of more than 200 experts from the international Program Committee, each of them specialized in one of the main conference topic areas. After reviewing, 32 papers were selected to be published and presented as full papers and 64 additional papers, describing work-- progress, as short papers for oral presentation only. Furthermore, 58 papers were p- sented as posters. The full-paper acceptance ratio was 13%, and the total oral paper acceptance ratio was 40%. Therefore, we hope that you find the papers included in this book interesting, and we trust they may represent a helpful reference in the future for all those who need to address any of the research areas mentioned above.

• On-Line Analytical Processing
• SOA
• Simulation
• Social Media
• e-Business
• e-Government
• e-Learning
• information system
• internet
• programming
• search engine marketing (SEM)
• service-oriented architecture
• web interfaces
• web services
• web technologies

• Department of Systems and informatics, Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC) and Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal (IPS), Setúbal, Portugal

  José Cordeiro, Joaquim Filipe

• ESEO, Angers cedex 01, France

  Slimane Hammoudi

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