Editorial

Citation

Taniar, D. (2012), "Editorial", International Journal of Web Information Systems, Vol. 8 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijwis.2012.36208aaa.001

Editorial

Article Type: Editorial From: International Journal of Web Information Systems, Volume 8, Issue 1

This volume starts with a survey paper, contributed by authors from SAP Research, Germany. In particular, they discuss non-functional concerns in web services. As most web services related papers focus on the functional issues, such as what the services would do, non-functional issues focusing on how the services would perform, are very important. This paper discusses non-functional specifications and realization. A thorough evaluation of various approaches is also given.

The regular paper section contains four regular papers. The first paper, by Mohamed Graiet, Raoudha Maraoui, Mourad Kmimech, Mohamed Tahar Bhiri and Walid Gaaloul (Tunisia), proposes a formalization of web service composition mediation, including meta modeling of composite service, semi formalization with this meta model, and finally formalization the mediation protocol.

The second paper by Marcelo Mendoza (Chile) presents text categorization using Naïve Bayes. Automatic text categorization has a wide range of applications, such as mail spam detection, directory maintenance, etc. There have been many approaches in text categorization, using Bayes and non-Bayes approaches. In this paper, the author proposes an extension to the Naïve Bayes approach. The experimental evaluation includes comprehensive testing using various datasets from newsgroups.

The third paper by José L. Navarro-Galindo and José Samos (Spain) discusses on web content management. Particularly they focus on the semantic annotation. They present in the paper their proposed tool known as FLERSA for flexible range semantic annotation.

The final paper in this issue by Clemens Schefels and Roberto V. Zicari (Germany) focuses on visitors’ feedbacks on web sites. Visitors’ feedbacks are important in analyzing their interests. This is particularly relevant to web portal based systems. This paper uses the Gugubarra prototype system in analyzing web users’ interests. This paper proposes a framework for managing user feedback, including establishing a profile. A case study of their evaluation is also presented.

I would like to thank the authors who contributed the papers in this issue, external reviewers who tirelessly reviewed and provided constructive comments to the authors, and our assistant editor, Dr Pardede, who manages the entire reviewing process.

David Taniar