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.

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

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 here.

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

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

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