Guest editorial: WWWJ special issue of the 20th international conference on Web information systems engineering (WISE 20
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Guest editorial: WWWJ special issue of the 20th international conference on Web information systems engineering (WISE 2019) Reynold Cheng1 · Nikos Mamoulis2 · Xin Huang3 Accepted: 9 October 2020 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
1 WISE 2019 The 20th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2019) was held in Hong Kong, China, during January 19–21, 2020. It marked the 20th anniversary of the conference, which was first held in Hong Kong in 2000. Building on the success of its predecessors, WISE 2019 continued to provide an international forum for researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners to share their knowledge in the rapidly growing area of Web technologies, methodologies, and applications. The first WISE event took place in Hong Kong, China (2000). Then the trip continued to Kyoto, Japan (2001); Singapore (2002); Rome, Italy (2003); Brisbane, Australia (2004); New York, USA (2005); Wuhan, China (2006); Nancy, France (2007); Auckland, New Zealand (2008); Poznan, Poland (2009); Hong Kong, China (2010); Sydney, Australia (2011); Paphos, Cyprus (2012); Nanjing, China (2013); Thessaloniki, Greece (2014); Miami, USA (2015); Shanghai, China (2016); Puschino, Russia (2017); Dubai, UAE (2018); In 2019, WISE returned to Hong Kong, China, supported by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and City University of Hong Kong.
This article belongs to the Topical Collection: Special Issue on Web Information Systems Engineering 2019 Guest Editors: Reynold Cheng, Nikos Mamoulis, and Xin Huang Reynold Cheng
[email protected] Nikos Mamoulis [email protected] Xin Huang [email protected] 1
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
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Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China
World Wide Web
A total of 211 research papers were submitted to the conference for consideration, and most of them were reviewed by three reviewers. Finally, 50 submissions were selected as regular papers (with an acceptance rate of 23.7%) [1, 2]. The research papers cover the areas of blockchain, deep learning, machine learning, recommender systems, data mining, Web-based applications, graph learning, knowledge graphs, graph mining, text mining, and crowdsourcing. In addition to regular papers, The WISE-2019 program also featured two workshops: (1) The 6th international workshop on big data quality and trust (QUAT); and (2) The international workshop on Web information systems in the era of AI. In addition, the conference program included two distinguished keynote presentations by Prof. Wei Zhao (American University of Sharjah, UAE) and Prof. Weiyi Meng (State University of New York at Binghamton, USA) respectively.
2 The special issue The six top ranked papers out of 50 full papers at WISE 2019 have been selected for the special issue of World Wide Web Journal (WWWJ). The authors have been asked to extend their conference papers for journal publication and in accordance with customary practice of adding at least 30% new m
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