This book gives a good overview in topics included in the engineering process of web information systems. In advantage over other books in this field, it doesn't stick to programming only. It addresses advanced topics from interaction storyboards up to media migration and web mining. It is written for advanced software engineer students and teachers to look behind the scenes of web information systems. It is a pretty good resource for people who want to understand the complexity of large web-based systems. It is also essential reading for those who look for advanced research topics in the field.
– Ismail Khalil Ibrahim, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
This book is a complementary book suitable for readers who want to understand or build web information system. Readers may enhance their knowledge on issues relating to modelling, representation, extraction, and mining information on the Web. It helps readers in understanding current researches on web information system. In particular, chapter 5 and chapter 6 are suitable for readers with database background. These two chapters describe how XML documents can be stored in object relational database and how a subset of concepts can be optimally extracted.
– Philip Tse, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong