Carlo Meghini

Nicolas Spyratos

Yuzuru Tanaka

Tetsuya Yoshida

This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Information Search, Integration and Personalization, ISIP 2012, held in Sapporo, Japan, in October 2012. The 14 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 presentations. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge federation and integration; social system support and visualization; social information search and discovery.

International Workshop, ISIP 2012, Sapporo, Japan, October 11-13, 2012. Revised Selected Papers

Information Search, Integration and Personalization

Asanee Kawtrakul

Dominique Laurent

This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the International Workshop on Information Search, Integration and Personalization, ISIP 2013, held in Bangkok, Thailand, in September 2013. The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 presentations. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge federation and integration; information discovery; recommendation systems and ontologies.

International Workshop, ISIP 2013, Bangkok, Thailand, September 16--18, 2013. Revised Selected Papers

Information Search, Integration, and Personalization

Klaus P. Jantke

Aran Lunzer

The lives of people all around the world, especially in industrialized nations, continue to be changed by the presence and growth of the Internet. Its in?uence is felt at scales ranging from private lifestyles to national economies, boosting thepaceatwhichmoderninformationandcommunicationtechnologiesin?uence personal choices along with business processes and scienti?c endeavors. In addition to its billions of HTML pages, the Web can now be seen as an open repository of computing resources. These resources provide access to computational services as well as data repositories, through a rapidly growing variety of Web applications and Web services. However, people’s usage of all these resources barely scratches the surface of the possibilities that such richness should o?er. One simple reason is that, given the variety of information available and the rate at which it is being extended, it is di?cult to keep up with the range of resources relevant to one’s interests. Another reason is that resources are o?ered in a bewildering variety of formats and styles, so that many resources e?ectively stand in isolation. This is reminiscent of the challenge of enterprise application integration, - miliar to every large organization be it in commerce, academia or government. Thechallengearisesbecauseoftheaccumulationofinformationandcommuni- tion systems over decades, typically without the technical provision or political will to make them work together. Thus the exchange of data among those s- tems is di?cult and expensive, and the potential synergetic e?ects of combining them are never realized.

International Workshop, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, May 1-6, 2005, Revised Selected Papers

Federation over the Web

Nicolas Spyratos

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