Contains the refereed post-proceedings of the 1st and 2nd International Conferences on Web Information Systems and Technologies. This title addresses all relevant aspects of web information systems technologies and applications.

Invited Papers.- The Implications of Web 2.0 on Web Information Systems.- Developing Criteria for Successful Learning Repositories.- The Growing Importance of e-Communities on the Web.- Internet Technology.- Design, Implementation and Testing of Mobile Agent Protection Mechanism for Manets.- An Automatic Generation Method of Differential XSLT Stylesheet from Two XML Documents.- Mining Architectural Patterns in Specific Contexts and Its Application to e-Finance.- Knowledge Management for Adapted Information Retrieval in Ubiquitous Environments.- Ontology-Based Integration of XML Data.- Extending an XML Mediator with Text Query.- Instances Navigation for Querying Integrated Data from Web-Sites.- Web Federates — Towards A Middleware for Highly Scalable Peer-to-Peer Services.- Web Interfaces and Applications.- Modeling Preferences Online.- Efficient Information Access from Constraint Wireless Terminals.- An Algorithm to Use Feedback on Viewed Documents to Improve Web Query.- Web User Interaction.- Enabling Vocal Interaction in a Web Portal Environment.- M-FIRE: A Metaphor-Based Framework for Information Representation and Exploration.- Towards a Data Quality Model for Web Portals.- Domain Ontologies: A Database-Oriented Analysis.- Real-Time Discovery of Currently and Heavily Viewed Web Pages.- Metamodeling the Requirements of Web Systems.- Society, e-Business and e-Government.- Efficient Management of Multi-version XML Documents for e-Government Applications.- E-namoSupport: A Web-Based Helpdesk Support Environment for Senior Citizens.- Analysis of Weblog Link Structure — A Community Perspective.- e-Learning.- The Autotutor 3 Architecture.- Redesigning Introductory Economics.- Teaching Database Analysis and Design in a Web-Based Constructivist Learning Environment.- Isthe Jury Still Out on “Blended Learning”?.- A System for Automatic Evaluation of Programs for Correctness and Performance.- Usability and Instructional Experience in a Web-Based Remote Internetworking Laboratory Environment.- The VTIE Collaborative Writing Environment.- Participation in International Virtual Learning Communities.- New Electronic Multi-media Assessment System.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 1st and 2nd International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2005 and 2006, held in Miami, FL, USA, and Setubal, Portugal, respectively. The 30 revised full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 300 submissions overall. In addition, three keynote presentations are also included. The papers address all relevant aspects of web information systems technologies and applications and are grouped into four parts about internet technology; web interfaces and applications; society, e-business and e-government; and e-learning.