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Call for Book Proposal

Web Information Systems Engineering and Internet Technologies Books Series

http://e-research.csm.vu.edu.au/books.php

Aims and Goals: The explosive growth of Web resources and Internet applications in the recent years has created an urgent need for effective and efficient tools for information consumers, who must be able to easily locate, manage and exchange disparate information, ranging from unstructured documents and pictures to structured, but often hidden, record-oriented data. Though many research works are done, with papers published in various conferences and journals, the systematic and authoritative books such as monographs, handbooks, reference books and textbooks in these areas are in high demand for academic, graduates and industry practitioners. This new series is a timely response to the recent advances in Internet and World Wide Web technologies and it is aimed is to promote the research and development activities and disseminate knowledge in web information systems in particularly, and in internet applications in general.

Specific Topics: This series will include the following topics (but not limited to):

e-Commerce
Data Models
Innovative Web-based Applications
Internet Security
Performance
Mobile Information Systems
Peer-to-Peer Computing
Semantic Web
Web Agents
Web-based Enterprise Systems
Web-based GIS
Web-based Multimedia/Hypermedia Systems
Web-based Training and Learning
Web Information Extraction
Web Information Retrieval
Web Information System Modelling, Design, and Development
Web Information Dynamics and Maintenance
Web Intelligence
Web Monitoring & Management
Web Mining and Warehousing
Web Ontologies
Web Query Languages
Web Searching and Filtering Technology
Web Services
Web Supported Cooperative Work
Web Metrics
Web Site Management Techniques and Tools
Web Tools & Languages
Web and Internet Transactions Processing
Web Visualization
XML & Semi-structured Data

Books in the series should have a strong focus on internet/Web-based applications and, in particularly, web-related problems such as web personalization, web commerce, web agents, web services, web-based multimedia, web-based information systems, web search engines, web-related performance evaluations, web-supported cooperative work, and universal design.
Specific Proposals: Proposals for advanced level textbooks, research monographs, reference books, coherently integrated multi-author edited books and handbooks, will be considered for the series and each proposal will be reviewed by the Series Editor and/or editorial board members with additional reviews from independent reviewers where appropriate. When submitting a proposal please use the Book Proposal Form, available as a Word file from http://e-research.csm.vu.edu.au/books.php.

Series Editor:
Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia (yzhang@csm.vu.edu.au)

Editorial Board:
Robin Chen, AT&T, USA
Umeshwar Dayal, HP, USA
Arun Iyengar, IBM, USA
Keith Jeffery, Rutherford Appleton Lab, UK
Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Masaru Kitsuregawa, Tokyo University, Japan
Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, China
Marianne Winslett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Erich Neuhold, IPSI, Germany
Tamer Ozsu, Waterloo University, Canada
Maria Orlowska, DSTC, Australia
Gultekin Ozsoyoglu, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Mike Papazoglou, Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
Marek Rusinkiewicz, Telcordia Technology, USA.
Stefano Spaccapietra, EPFL, Switzerland
Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia
Philip Yu, IBM, USA
Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia
John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada

PUBLISHED BOOKS IN THIS SERIES:

Semistructured Database Design, Ling, Tok W., Lee, Mong L., Dobbie, Gillian (2005). ISBN: 0-387-23567-1

Web Content Delivery, Tang, Xueyan; Xu, Jianliang; Chanson, Samuel T.(2005), ISBN: 0-387-24356-9