International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP)

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Mission

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.

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Topics Covered

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

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Editor(s)-in-Chief Biography

Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Technology at the Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave, Portugal. She holds a Dipl. Eng. in the field of Systems and Informatics Engineering, an M.Sci. in the field of Computer Integrated Manufacturing and a Dr.Sci in the field of Production Systems Engineering. She teaches subjects related with Information Systems, Information Technologies and Organizational Models to undergraduate and post-graduate studies. She supervises several PhD projects in the domain of Virtual Enterprises and Information Systems and Technologies. She regularly publishes in international peer-reviewed journals and participates on international scientific conferences. She serves as a member of Editorial Board and Associate Editor for several International Journals and for several Scientific Committees of International Conferences. She has authored and edited several books and her work appears in more than 100 papers published in journals, book chapters and conference proceedings. She is the co-founder and co-chair of several international conferences: CENTERIS – Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems, ViNOrg - International Conference on Virtual and Networked Organizations: Emergent Technologies and Tools and SeGAH – IEEE International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health.João Varajão is professor at the Department of Engineering of the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, where he teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses on Information Systems management, project management and software engineering. He also supervises several Msc and PhD projects in the domain of Information Systems management, Information Systems outsourcing and e-business. He earned his PhD and MSc from the University of Minho. His scientific interests include Information Systems management, chief Information Systems profession, enterprise Information Systems and project management. He has over 200 publications, including books, book chapters, refereed publications and communications at international conferences. He serves as associate editor and member of editorial board for international journals and has served in several scientific committees of international conferences. He is founder and co-chair of CENTERIS – Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems.Greg Adamson is a project manager in the financial services industry, based in Melbourne. He holds a PhD from RMIT Faculty of Business and a Bachelor of Technology from the University of Southern Queensland. He has led several emerging technology projects in Europe, Asia, and Australia and has worked on Internet projects since 1991.

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Editorial Board

Associate Editors
Stefan Liesche, IBM, Germany
Neil Richardson, SkyBlue Consulting, UK
Rui Rijo, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal
Ed Young, Young Consulting, Australia

International Editorial Review Board
Esharenana Adomi, Delta State University, Nigeria
Ezendu Ariwa, London Metropolitan University, UK
Mario Cannataro, University "Magna Græcia" of Catanzaro, Italy
Anca Draghici, "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, Romania
Jai Ganesh, Infosys India, India
Miguel Guinalíu, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Manish Gupta, M&T Bank Corporation, USA
Julian Newman, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK
David Parsons, Massey University, New Zealand
Emanuel Peres, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
Vojko Potocan, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia
João Manuel R. S. Tavares, University of Porto, Portugal
Ricardo Martinho, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal
Eric Tsui, Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Karyn Welsh, Industrial Logistics Institute, Australia
Cheih Liu (Allan) Ying, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan
Zhu Zhang, University of Arizona, USA