Guest Editorial: Special Issue on the 1st Web Information Systems Engineering Conference (WISE'00)

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