With advances in Internet and World Wide Web Technologies, research on the design, implementation and management of Web-based information system has become increasingly important. The purpose of WISE Society is to promote and exchanging scholarly work in Web Information Systems and related fields throughout the world.   WISE Society is a non-profit making organisation. One of its vehicles for achieving its objectives is the sponsorship and support of the annual WISE Conferences to bring research scientists and industrial practitioners together to exchange their most recent results and discuss new system developments.   The governing body of WISE conference series is WISE Steering Committee/Executive Committee. WISE Annual Conference is co-organised by WISE Society and host organisations. The potential organisers please see WISE Conference Guideline and contact the WISE Steering Committee Chair.   The major topics of interest of the conference include but are not limited to:

  • Internet and Web-based data management;
  • Database and information-system integration;

  • Information extraction;

  • Information services;
  • Information-system modeling, design, and development;
  • Support tools and languages for information-system development;
  • Search and filtering technology;
  • Internet transactions and transactional processes in the Web;
  • Mobile web Information Systems;
  • Search techniques and engines;
  • Web applications;
  • Web change monitoring and management;
  • Web content standards;
  • Web data mining;
  • Web database security
  • Web -based data-modeling languages;
  • Web-based GIS;
  • Web information dynamics;
  • Web information security;
  • Web page design techniques and tools;
  • Web query languages;
  • Web site management techniques and tools;
  • Web-based publishing;
  • Web-based training and teaching;
  • Web-based multimedia/hypermedia systems;
  • Web-supported cooperative work;
  • Web data mining & warehousing;
  • Deep / Hidden Web;
  • Semantic Web;
  • Web Agents;
  • Web Change Monitoring and Management;
  • Web Commerce;
  • Web Data Model;
  • Web Information Retrieval;
  • Web intelligence;
  • Web Metrics;
  • Web Mining;
  • Web Ontologism;
  • Web Performance;
  • Web Query Languages;
  • Web Security;
  • Web Tools & Languages;
  • Web Transactions;
  • Web Visualization;
  • Web Warehousing;
  • XML and  Semi-structured data

Since 2001, the Journal of internet and Web information Systems (IWIS Journal) has been merged with WWW Journal to become a new extended World Wide Web Journal, World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems.

World Wide Web Journal will schedule a special issue each year for the extended versions of best WISE conference papers.