Webist

Key takeaways

Webist belongs to computer science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Webist to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Webist from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

The International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies is a major point of contact between scientific researchers, on the areas of web-based information systems. The conference has been held every year since 2005. WEBIST has technical sessions, tutorial talks, poster sessions and keynote lectures. Papers accepted are included in the Proceedings book. WEBIST achieved a fast popularity in 2007 and its maturity along of the subsequent years, reaching a stable conference-size. Usually, some papers are selected to be included in a post publication published by Springer Science+Business Media in series Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing.

Areas Internet Technology Mobile Systems Web infrastructures, Architectures and Platforms Artificial Intelligence on the Web Web Interfaces Social Networking

Current Chairs

Conference Chair Joaquim Filipe, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal / INSTICC, Portugal

Program Co-Chairs Francisco Domínguez Mayo, University of Seville, Spain

Editions

WEBIST 2019 - Vienna, Austria Proceedings - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies. ISBN 978-989-758-386-5 Best Paper Award Gabriela Bosetti, Előd Egyed-Zsigmond and Lucas O. Ono. "CATI: An Active Learning System for Event Detection on Mibroblogs’ Large Datasets" Best Student Paper - Robin Marx, Tom De Decker, Peter Quax and Wim Lamotte. "Of the Utmost Importance: Resource Prioritization in HTTP/3 over QUIC"

WEBIST 2018 - Seville, Spain Proceedings - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies. ISBN 978-989-758-324-7 Best Paper Award Natacha Targino, Damires Souza and Ana Carolina Salgado. "An Approach for Generating and Semantically Enriching Dataset Profiles" Best Student Paper - Mariano Rico, Rizkallah Touma, Anna Queralt and María S. Pérez. "Machine Learning-based Query Augmentation for SPARQL Endpoints"

WEBIST 2017 - Porto, Portugal Proceedings - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies. ISBN 978-989-758-246-2 Proceedings - Proceedings of the Web Information Systems and Technologies - 13th International Conference, Revised Selected Papers, Springer 2018. ISBN 978-3-319-93527-0 Best Paper Award Denis Kotkov, Jari Veijalainen and Shuaiqiang Wang. "A Serendipity-Oriented Greedy Algorithm for Recommendations" Best Student Paper - Claire Prudhomme, Timo Homburg, Jean-Jacques Ponciano, Frank Boochs, Ana Roxin and Christophe Cruz. "Automatic Integration of Spatial Data into the Semantic Web"

WEBIST 2016 - Rome, Italy Proceedings - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1. ISBN 978-989-758-186-1 Proceedings - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2. ISBN 978-989-758-186-1 Proceedings - Proceedings of the Web Information Systems and Technologies - 12th International Conference, Revised Selected Papers, Springer 2017. ISBN 978-3-319-66467-5 Best Paper Award Gregor Blichmann, Carsten Radeck, Robert Starke and Klaus Meißner. "Triple-based Sharing of Context-Aware Composite Web Applications for Non-programmers" Best Student Paper - Daniel Herzog and Wolfgang Wörndl. "Extending Content-Boosted Collaborative Filtering for Context-aware, Mobile Event Recommendations"

WEBIST 2015 - Lisbon, Portugal Proceedings - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies. ISBN 978-989-758-106-9 Best Paper Award Giseli Rabello Lopes, Bernardo Pereira Nunes, Luiz André P. Paes Leme, Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller and Marco A. Casanova. "Knowing the past to Plan for the Future" Best Student Paper - Martin Leginus, Leon Derczynski and Peter Dolog. "Enhanced Information Access to Social Streams Through Word Clouds with Entity Grouping"

WEBIST 2014 - Barcelona, Spain Proceedings - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies. ISBN 978-989-758-023-9 Best Paper Award Nan Tian, Yue Xu, Yuefeng Li, Ahmad Abdel-Hafez and Audun Josang. "Product Feature Taxonomy Learning based on User Reviews" Best Student Paper - Karsten Seipp and Kate Devlin. "The One Hand Wonder"

WEBIST 2013 - Aachen, Germany Proceedings - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies. ISBN 978-989-8565-54-9 Best Paper Award Christos Makris, Yannis Plegas, Giannis Tzimas and Emmanouil Viennas. "SerfSIN: Search Engines Results' Refinement using a Sense-driven Inference Network" Tyler Corbin, Tomasz Müldner and Jan Krzysztof Miziolek. "Pre-order Compression Schemes for XML in the Real Time Environment" Best Student Paper - Ricardo Lage, Peter Dolog and Martin Leginus. "Classifying Short Messages on Social Networks using Vector Space Models" Maria Chroni, Angelos Fylakis and Stavros D. Nikolopoulos. "Watermarking Images in the Frequency Domain by Exploiting Self-inverting Permutations"

WEBIST 2012 - Porto, Portugal Proceedings - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies. ISBN 978-989-8565-08-2 Best Paper Award Alexander Zibula and Tim A. Majchrzak. "DEVELOPING A CROSS-PLATFORM MOBILE SMART METER APPLICATION USING HTML5, JQUERY MOBILE AND PHONEGAP" Best Student Paper - Mikhail Zolotukhin, Timo Hämäläinen and Antti Juvonen. "GROWING HIERARCHICAL SELF-ORGANISING MAPS FOR ONLINE ANOMALY DETECTION BY USING NETWORK LOGS"

WEBIST 2011 - Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands Proceedings - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies. ISBN 978-989-8425-51-5 Best Paper Award Olfa Bouchaala, Mohamed Sellami, Walid Gaaloul, Samir Tata and Mohamed Jmaiel. "GRAPH-BASED MANAGEMENT OF COMMUNITIES OF WEB SERVICE REGISTRIES" Best Student Paper - Daniel Hienert, Benjamin Zapilko, Philipp Schaer and Brigitte Mathiak. "VIZGR"

WEBIST 2010 - Valencia, Spain Proceedings - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technology. ISBN 978-989-674-025-2

WEBIST 2009 - Lisbon, Portugal Proceedings - Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies. ISBN 978-989-8111-81-4

WEBIST 2008 - Funchal, Madeira, Portugal Proceedings - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies. ISBN 978-989-8111-26-5

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Webist

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Webist claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In computer science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Webist before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Webist ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Webist

In research: Webist appears in computer science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Webist in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Webist is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Academic conferences, Computer science conferences, Information systems conferences, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Webist outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

How to study Webist in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Webist means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Webist out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Webist in simple terms?

The International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies is a major point of contact between scientific researchers, on the areas of web-based information systems. The conference has been held every year since 2005.

Why does Webist matter?

Because it connects several computer science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Webist?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Webist.