This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2011, held in Sydney, Australia, in October 2011. The 17 revised full papers and 11 revised short papers presented together with 7 demo papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 96 submissions. The papers contained in these proceedings address challenging issues in software services, Web application engineering and modelling, Web search, social networks, Web semantics, and information retrieval and extraction.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the combined workshops on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2011 and WISE 2012, held in Sydney, Australia, in October 2011 and in Paphos, Cyprus, in November 2012. The seven workshops of WISE 2011-2012 have reported the recent developments and advances in the contemporary topics in the related fields of: Advanced Reasoning Technology for e-Science (ART 2012), Cloud-Enabled Business Process Management (CeBPM 2012), Engineering in the Semantic Enterprise (ESE 2012), Social Web Analysis for Trend Detection (SoWeTrend 2012), Big Data and Cloud (BDC 2012), Personalization in Cloud and Service Computing (PC-S 2011), and User-Focused Service Engineering, Consumption and Aggregation (USECA 2011).

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2012, held in Paphos, Cyprus, in November 2012. The 44 full papers, 13 short papers, 9 demonstrations papers and 9 “challenge” papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 194 submissions. The papers cover various topics in the field of Web Information Systems Engineering.

This two-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2021, held in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, in October 2021. The 55 full, 29 short and 5 demo papers, plus 2 tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from 229 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Part I: BlockChain and Crowdsourcing; Database System and Workflow; Data Mining and Applications; Knowledge Graph and Entity Linking; Graph Neural Network; Graph Query; Social Network; Spatial and Temporal Data Analysis. Part II: Deep Learning (1), Deep Learning (2), Recommender Systems (1), Recommender Systems (2), Text Mining (1), Text Mining (2), Service Computing and Cloud Computing (1), Service Computing and Cloud Computing (2), Tutorial and Demo.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2014, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in October 2014. The 52 full papers, 16 short and 14 poster papers, presented in the two-volume proceedings LNCS 8786 and 8787 were carefully reviewed and selected from 196 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: Web mining, modeling and classification; Web querying and searching; Web recommendation and personalization; semantic Web; social online networks; software architectures amd platforms; Web technologies and frameworks; Web innovation and applications; and challenge.

This two volume set LNCS 9418 and LNCS 9419 constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2015, held in Miami, FL, USA, in November 2015. The 53 full papers, 17 short and 14 special sessions and invited papers, presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 189 submissions. The papers cover the areas of big data techniques and applications, deep/hidden web, integration of web and internet, linked open data, semantic web, social network computing, social web and applications, social web models, analysis and mining, web-based applications, web-based business processes and web services, web data integration and mashups, web data models, web information retrieval, web privacy and security, web-based recommendations, and web search.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the combined workshops on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2013, held in Nanjing, China, in October 2013. The seven workshops of WISE 2013 have reported the recent developments and advances in the contemporary topics in the related fields of: the big data problem on the Web, Big Web Data 2013, mobile business, MBC 2013, personalization in cloud and service computing, PCS 2013, data quality and trust in dig data, QUAT 2013, e-health and social computing, SCEH 2013, semantic technology for e-health, STeH 2013 and semantic technology for smarter cities, STSC 2013.

This two volume set LNCS 10041 and LNCS 10042 constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2016, held in Shanghai, China, in November 2016. The 39 full papers and 31 short papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 233 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics such as Social Network Data Analysis; Recommender Systems; Topic Modeling; Data Diversity; Data Similarity; Context-Aware Recommendation; Prediction; Big Data Processing; Cloud Computing; Event Detection; Data Mining; Sentiment Analysis; Ranking in Social Networks; Microblog Data Analysis; Query Processing; Spatial and Temporal Data; Graph Theory; Non-Traditional Environments; and Special Session on Data Quality and Trust in Big Data.

The two-volume set LNCS 10569 and LNCS 10570 constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2017, held in Puschino, Russia, in October 2017. The 49 full papers and 24 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 195 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics such as microblog data analysis, social network data analysis, data mining, pattern mining, event detection, cloud computing, query processing, spatial and temporal data, graph theory, crowdsourcing and crowdsensing, web data model, language processing and web protocols, web-based applications, data storage and generator, security and privacy, sentiment analysis, and recommender systems.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the combined workshops on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2014, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in October 2014. The 19 selected papers presented were carefully revised and report from the four workshops: computational social networks, IWCSN 2014, enterprise social networks, Org2 2014, personalization and context-awareness in cloud and service computing, PCS 2014, and data quality and trust in big data, QUAT 2014.