[AISWorld] Abstract Announcement for International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP) 6(4)

Maria Manuela C. Cunha mcruzcunha at gmail.com
Fri Apr 1 11:50:41 EDT 2016 

The contents of the latest issue of:
*International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP)*
Volume 6, Issue 4, October - December 2014
Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically
ISSN: 1938-0194; EISSN: 1938-0208;
Published by IGI Global Publishing, Hershey, USA
www.igi-global.com/ijwp 
<http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-web-portals-ijwp/1113>

Editor-in-Chief: Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha (Polytechnic Institute of 
Cavado and Ave, Portugal) and Emanuel Soares Peres (University of 
Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal)

/Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts 
submitted to the International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP). All 
manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial 
process./

*EDITORIAL PREFACE*

Editorial Preface

Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha (Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, 
Barcelos, Portugal), Emanuel Peres (University of Trás-os-Montes and 
Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal)

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www.igi-global.com/pdf.aspx?tid=148329&ptid=91781&ctid=15&t=Editorial 
Preface 
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*ARTICLE 1*

VIRTUAL OFFICE: A Web Platform for a Collaborative Networked Organization

Maria Victoria de la Fuente Aragon (Technical University of Cartagena, 
Cartagena, Spain), Lorenzo Ros-McDonnell (Technical University of 
Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain)

The integration of functions in business networks requires a high level 
of integration of the information processes. Based on file transfers, 
these networks respond to the requirements of collaborative processes. 
There is an effective need for a strategy of integration among the 
members of the network. In the ICT era, the collaborative company needs 
to reach and maintain agility in the dynamics of their collaborative 
processes. Within the frame of a collaborative network, the development 
of a web platform permits the growth of an area that integrates 
collaborative processes, in which several companies participate, each 
supplying their own data. The Fruit-and-Vegetable Collaborative Network 
studied in this paper is formed by producers, processers, packaging 
companies, marketers, transporters, and distributors. It has been 
developed via a web platform (Virtual Office), which allows the network 
to carry out processes in a collaborative way, and helps the network in 
its process of confidence-building and in the interactions among its 
members.

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www.igi-global.com/article/virtual-office/148333 
<http://www.igi-global.com/article/virtual-office/148333>

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www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=148333 
<http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=148333>

*ARTICLE 2*

Evaluation of User Acceptance of Virtual Environments and Interfaces for 
Communication in Virtual Teams

Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha (Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, 
Barcelos, Portugal & Algoritmi Research Centre, University of Minho, 
Braga, Portugal), Goran D. Putnik (School of Engineering, Algoritmi 
Research Centre, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal), Patrícia 
Gonçalves (Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Barcelos, Portugal), 
Joaquim Gonçalves (Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Barcelos, 
Portugal & CESUC Social Studies Center, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, 
Portugal)

Several studies have highlighted the relevance of face-to-face 
communication, suggesting that computer-mediated communication can lead 
to decreases in group effectiveness and reduce satisfaction levels in 
terms of trust and comfort of its users. Supported by an experiment 
where the emotional or affective aspects of communication were tested, 
this paper validates the thesis that, from the users' perspective, there 
is no opposition to the acceptance of virtual environments and 
interfaces for communication, and that these environments are able to 
cope with the reconfiguration dynamics requirements of virtual teams or 
client-server relations in a virtual enterprise operation. For the 
thesis validation, the authors experimented with two architectures, the 
Direct Communication Architecture (DCA) and the Virtual Communication 
Architecture (VCA) and found that the VCA could represent a “natural” 
environment to cope with the new generation of organizational 
environments and teams, characterised by intense reconfiguration dynamics.

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www.igi-global.com/article/evaluation-of-user-acceptance-of-virtual-environments-and-interfaces-for-communication-in-virtual-teams/148334 
<http://www.igi-global.com/article/evaluation-of-user-acceptance-of-virtual-environments-and-interfaces-for-communication-in-virtual-teams/148334>

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www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=148334 
<http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=148334>

*ARTICLE 3*

Towards an Intelligent OLAP System Facing Sparse Problems

Rania Koubaa (Miracl Laboratory, Tunisia), Eya Ben Ahmed (Miracl 
Laboratory, Tunisia), Faiez Gargouri (MIRACL Laboratory, Tunisia)

Exploring intelligent data stored in data warehouses may efficiently 
assist the knowledge-seeker in his decision process. Such traced 
information related to performed analysis by decision-makers on data 
warehouses are stored in OLAP log files. These files contain useful 
knowledge about the analysts' preferences. Sometimes, some formulated 
queries provide no results. Such a dilemma is known as the sparsity 
problem. In this paper, to overcome this limitation in user-centric data 
warehouses, the authors focus on a specific class of preferences, namely 
the conflicting preferences. Indeed, a conflicting preference describes 
a low frequency preference stored in OLAP log files, so that it is 
considered as tailored to given analysts. Such preferences are 
characterized by their rarity. To deal with this issue, the authors 
introduce a new approach to discover these preferences through mining of 
rare association rules using a new introduced method for generating the 
N highest confidence rare association rules. The derived rare 
preferences will be used to reformulate the launched query avoiding an 
empty result. The carried out experiments on their built online 
recruitment data warehouse point out the efficiency of their approach.

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www.igi-global.com/article/towards-an-intelligent-olap-system-facing-sparse-problems/148335 
<http://www.igi-global.com/article/towards-an-intelligent-olap-system-facing-sparse-problems/148335>

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*ARTICLE 4*

Case-Based Planning with User Preferences for Web Service Composition

Yamina Hachemi (Djillali Liabes University of Sidi Bel Abbes, Sidi Bel 
Abbes, Algeria), Sidi Mohamed Benslimane (LabRi Laboratory, École 
Supérieure en Informatique, Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria)

Web services composition has emerged as a solution to answer the 
requester's requirements. However, the selection of an appropriate Web 
service has become a difficult task due to the number of Web services 
present on the Web and mostly they offer similar functionalities. User 
preferences are a key factor that can be used to rank candidate services 
and retain only the best ones. To improve the process of web service 
composition the authors propose a Case-Based Planning (CBP) approach 
based on preferences which uses successful experiences in past to solve 
similar problems at present or/and in the future. How to make a choice 
base on non-functional factors becomes a problem that need to be solved. 
This paper, argues that the selection should be considered in a global 
manner based on the user's preferences. The authors present a framework 
that deals with web service composition based on user preferences and 
CBP method. Results obtained offer more than a solution to the user and 
taking both functional and non-functional requirements.

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www.igi-global.com/article/case-based-planning-with-user-preferences-for-web-service-composition/148336 
<http://www.igi-global.com/article/case-based-planning-with-user-preferences-for-web-service-composition/148336>

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*International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP)* in your institution's 
library. This journal is also included in the IGI Global aggregated 
*"InfoSci-Journals"* database: www.igi-global.com/isj 
<http://www.igi-global.com/e-resources/infosci-databases/infosci-journals/>.

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*CALL FOR PAPERS*

Mission of IJWP:

The mission of the *International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP)* is to 
be a primary forum for researchers and practitioners to disseminate the 
evolving theory and practice related to Web portals, providing 
comprehensive coverage and understanding in its technological, business, 
organizational, and social dimensions. IJWP expands knowledge on all 
types of portals, from personal and corporate to domain specific, 
including government, news, cultural, collaborative, and business 
oriented portals. The journal publishes original contributions concerned 
with all aspects of planning, development, implementation, management, 
and exploitation, including literature reviews and case studies.

Indices of IJWP:

  * ACM Digital Library
  * Bacon's Media Directory
  * Cabell's Directories
  * Compendex (Elsevier Engineering Index)
  * DBLP
  * GetCited
  * Google Scholar
  * INSPEC
  * JournalTOCs
  * Library & Information Science Abstracts (LISA)
  * MediaFinder
  * Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD)
  * SCOPUS
  * The Index of Information Systems Journals
  * The Standard Periodical Directory
  * Ulrich's Periodicals Directory

Coverage of IJWP:

Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) 
the following:

  * Business process integration and management
  * Cloud and grid solutions
  * Content Management Systems
  * Customization
  * e-Commerce and e-Business applications
  * Evolution of portals
  * Frameworks for portal design and development
  * Infrastructures
  * Mobile technologies and applications
  * Project management
  * Resource management, performance issues, and administration issues
  * Security issues
  * Semantic Web services and federated architectures in Web portals
  * Tools and development environments
  * User interface issues
  * Web services

Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission 
guidelines 
www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers/international-journal-web-portals-ijwp/1113 
<http://www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers/international-journal-web-portals-ijwp/1113>

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