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Guest editorial: special issue on the 1st web information systems engineering conference (Wise'00)
Itlformarion Sysretns Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 59-60, 200 I 0 2001 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. Printed in Great Britain 0306-4379/O I $20.00 PII: SO306-4379(01)00009-6
Pergamon
GUEST EDITORIAL: SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE 1” WEB INFORMATION SYSTEMS ENGINEERING CONFERENCE (WISE’OO) KLAUS DITTKICH’, Database Technology
Department
YANCHUN
ZHANG’, and YAHIKO KAMBAYASH?
Research Group, Institut ftir Informatik - UniversitBt Ziirich, WinterthurerstralJe Switzerland
of Mathematics
and Computing,
Graduate
University
School of Informatics,
of Southern Queensland, Kyoto University,
Toowoomba,
190, CH-8057
Ziirich,
Qld 4350, Australia
Kyoto, Japan
With advances in Internet technologies, and particularly with the development of the World-Wide Web, research on design, implementation, and management of Internet and Web-based information systems has become increasingly important. As more and more information of various types becomes available on the Internet and Web, query and retrieval as well as the management of Internet information become extremely difficult. Therefore systematic approaches to develop and manage Internet and Web information systems are in high demand. The 1” International Conference on Web Information Systems (WISE’OO) has provided an excellent opportunity for researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners to share their rapidly developing knowledge and report on new advances in web-based information systems. The conference attracted 115 submissions from 25 countries/regions. 36 regular papers were selected for the presentation and inclusion in the proceedings, and 6 papers have been invited for submission to the special issue. After another round of peer reviews, the following three high quality papers have been included in this special issue. They are greatly extended and extensively revised papers that appeared in WISE’00 proceedings. The three papers are 1.
Using Visual Spatial Search Interface for WWW Applications and Guihai Chen
by Xiaofang
Zhou, Joseph D. Yates,
2.
Hybrid Transformation for Indexing and Searching Web Documents by Fiona Lee, Stephane Bressan, and Beng Chin Ooi.
in the Cartographic
3.
Web Interface-Driven Cooperative Exception Handling in ADOME by Dickson K.W. Chiu, Qing Li, and Kamalakar Karlapalem
Workjlow Management
Paradigm System
Most Internet search engines are keyword-based. They are not efficient for the queries when geographical location is important. A natural interface for spatial searching is a map. A map-based search engine requires a well-designed visual interface that is intuitive to use yet flexible and expressive enough to support various types of spatial queries as well as aspatial queries. Similar to hyperlinks for text and images in an HTML page, spatial objects in a map should support hyperlinks. Such an interface needs to be scalable with the size of the geographical regions and the number of websites it covers. In spite of handling typically a very large amount of spatial data, a map-based search interface should meet the expectation of fast response time for interactive applications. In the first paper, Zhou, Yates and Chen discussed general requirements and the design for a new map-based web search interface, focusing on integration with the WWW and visual spatial query interface. A number of current and future research issues are discussed, and a prototype for the University of Queensland is presented. In the second paper, Lee, Bressan and Ooi presented a geographical search engine, Global Atlas, which provides a cartographic paradigm for the indexing and searching of World Wide Web documents. In their system, documents are indexed according to their geographical footprints and searched by interactively drawing queries on maps. Based on the empirical results, they evaluated several surface fitting techniques and designed a hybrid calibration method for maps. The third paper addresses the exception handling issue in workflow systems. Chiu, Li and Karlapalem have developed an adaptive exception manager ADOME-WFMS and its web-based interface with
59
60
KLAUSDITTRICH era/.
procedures for supporting re-use, resolution of expected exceptions, cooperation handling, workflow evolution, etc.. Due to the highly success of WISE’00 conference, WISE Steering Committee has established a WISE Society and decided to run the WISE conference annually. WISE’01 is planned for December 3-6, 2001 in Kyoto (http://www.i-wise.org). Finally we would like to express our gratitude to the authors and referees for their valuable time spent in preparing and reviewing the papers, and the editor-in-chief of Information Systems, Matthias Jarke, for making the journal available for this special issue.
February 200 1 Klaus D&rich, Yanchun Zhang, and Yahiko Kambayashi
Pergamon
GUEST EDITORIAL: SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE 1” WEB INFORMATION SYSTEMS ENGINEERING CONFERENCE (WISE’OO) KLAUS DITTKICH’, Database Technology
Department
YANCHUN
ZHANG’, and YAHIKO KAMBAYASH?
Research Group, Institut ftir Informatik - UniversitBt Ziirich, WinterthurerstralJe Switzerland
of Mathematics
and Computing,
Graduate
University
School of Informatics,
of Southern Queensland, Kyoto University,
Toowoomba,
190, CH-8057
Ziirich,
Qld 4350, Australia
Kyoto, Japan
With advances in Internet technologies, and particularly with the development of the World-Wide Web, research on design, implementation, and management of Internet and Web-based information systems has become increasingly important. As more and more information of various types becomes available on the Internet and Web, query and retrieval as well as the management of Internet information become extremely difficult. Therefore systematic approaches to develop and manage Internet and Web information systems are in high demand. The 1” International Conference on Web Information Systems (WISE’OO) has provided an excellent opportunity for researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners to share their rapidly developing knowledge and report on new advances in web-based information systems. The conference attracted 115 submissions from 25 countries/regions. 36 regular papers were selected for the presentation and inclusion in the proceedings, and 6 papers have been invited for submission to the special issue. After another round of peer reviews, the following three high quality papers have been included in this special issue. They are greatly extended and extensively revised papers that appeared in WISE’00 proceedings. The three papers are 1.
Using Visual Spatial Search Interface for WWW Applications and Guihai Chen
by Xiaofang
Zhou, Joseph D. Yates,
2.
Hybrid Transformation for Indexing and Searching Web Documents by Fiona Lee, Stephane Bressan, and Beng Chin Ooi.
in the Cartographic
3.
Web Interface-Driven Cooperative Exception Handling in ADOME by Dickson K.W. Chiu, Qing Li, and Kamalakar Karlapalem
Workjlow Management
Paradigm System
Most Internet search engines are keyword-based. They are not efficient for the queries when geographical location is important. A natural interface for spatial searching is a map. A map-based search engine requires a well-designed visual interface that is intuitive to use yet flexible and expressive enough to support various types of spatial queries as well as aspatial queries. Similar to hyperlinks for text and images in an HTML page, spatial objects in a map should support hyperlinks. Such an interface needs to be scalable with the size of the geographical regions and the number of websites it covers. In spite of handling typically a very large amount of spatial data, a map-based search interface should meet the expectation of fast response time for interactive applications. In the first paper, Zhou, Yates and Chen discussed general requirements and the design for a new map-based web search interface, focusing on integration with the WWW and visual spatial query interface. A number of current and future research issues are discussed, and a prototype for the University of Queensland is presented. In the second paper, Lee, Bressan and Ooi presented a geographical search engine, Global Atlas, which provides a cartographic paradigm for the indexing and searching of World Wide Web documents. In their system, documents are indexed according to their geographical footprints and searched by interactively drawing queries on maps. Based on the empirical results, they evaluated several surface fitting techniques and designed a hybrid calibration method for maps. The third paper addresses the exception handling issue in workflow systems. Chiu, Li and Karlapalem have developed an adaptive exception manager ADOME-WFMS and its web-based interface with
59
60
KLAUSDITTRICH era/.
procedures for supporting re-use, resolution of expected exceptions, cooperation handling, workflow evolution, etc.. Due to the highly success of WISE’00 conference, WISE Steering Committee has established a WISE Society and decided to run the WISE conference annually. WISE’01 is planned for December 3-6, 2001 in Kyoto (http://www.i-wise.org). Finally we would like to express our gratitude to the authors and referees for their valuable time spent in preparing and reviewing the papers, and the editor-in-chief of Information Systems, Matthias Jarke, for making the journal available for this special issue.
February 200 1 Klaus D&rich, Yanchun Zhang, and Yahiko Kambayashi