The Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS) is a publication that provides a forum and an authoritative source of information in all aspects related to the wide field of Computer Science. It provides an interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of ideas concerning theoretical, technical, practical, or even social issues. J.UCS has been published monthly by Springer since 1995, and it is currently indexed by the ISI databases, according to which its impact factor is 0.34, and its H index is 7.
J.UCS is pleased to announce a special issue on Wrapping Web Data Islands that will be published in November, 2008. Please, browse the details in this page, and consider submitting a proposal.
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| About J.UCS | Motivation |
| Topics of interest | Submissions |
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The Web is the largest knowledge repository, and the rationale behind its great success is that the information it stores is available in friendly formats through friendly interaction mechanisms. This obviously turns into trouble if the information a web site provides is useful to feed an automated business process since, in general, it is not easy to integrate friendly web sites programmatically. This is the reason why we refer to many current web sites as web data islands.
The Web Services and the Semantic Web technologies are facilitating software agents to have access to this repository, which is paving the way for new opportunities to integrate current web sites from a semantic point of view. Unfortunately, using these technologies to re-engineer existing web sites is not generally feasible, chiefly if there is not a clear separation between their business and presentation layers. In such cases, the only feasible solution is to design a wrapper that provides an API to fill in search forms, to navigate through intermediate index pages, and to extract information from the resulting data pages, i.e., it somewhat emulates the behaviour of a human being.
This special issue focuses on proposals to increase the abstraction level, resilience, and adaptiveness of such wrapping systems.
We are chiefly interested in the research areas and topics listed below, although others might well be considered if they are clearly aligned with our motivation:
We are also interested in commercial or research state-of-the-art systems to wrap data islands. Short reports on them will be also considered for this special issue.
Submissions to this special issue will be handled by e-mail. Please, send a three-page abstract to jucs at tdg-seville dot info as soon as possible. It will be peer-reviewed by at least three specialists, and your proposal will be accepted or rejected according to their opinions. The authors of accepted abstracts will be asked to extend them up to 25 pages. Extended versions will be peer-reviewed again to ensure high-quality.
Your abstract should be precise and informative. We strongly encourage you to organise it into five sections: problem statement, motivation, summary of your solution, conclusions (with an emphasis on how you advance the state of the art), and references. Do not forget to include a few key words from the list of topics of interest, and classify your proposal according to the the ACM Computing Classification System. Most of the papers for this special issue are expected to lie in one of the following categories: D.2.11 - Software Architectures, D.2.12 - Interoperability, H.2.5 - Heterogeneous Databases, H.3.3 - Information Search and Retrieval, H.3.5 - On-line Information Services, H.3.6 - Library Automation, H.3.7 - Digital Libraries, I.5.4 - Applications of Pattern Recognition.
Please, let the editors know that you are interested in submitting a paper to this special issue the sooner as possible. Just a quick note with an informative title and a few key words will be greatly appreciated.
What follows is a short list of major events whose topics of interest include ours. You might be interested in them, as well.
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Rafael Corchuelo
José L. Arjona
David Ruiz