In recent years, the emerging field of agent technologies has become mainstream in Web engineering. With constant field developments and updates, a reference source is needed that reflects the increased scope of agent technology application domains and development practices and tools.

Agent Technologies and Web Engineering: Applications and Systems presents the latest tools and applications addressing critical issues involved with information technology and Web engineering research. Covering topics such as next-generation networks, XML query processing, and Semantic Web services, this book provides cutting-edge research for practitioners and academicians involved in agent technology and Web engineering fields.

Coverage:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Agent technologies
Conceptual data classification
Graph network analysis
Next-generation networks
Semantic Web Services
Vertical Web page classifier
Web Engineering
Web service composition
Web service discovery systems
Web site performance analysis
Xml query processing

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This book presents research on how to deploy mobile agents in an e-business environment.

– Ghazi I. Alkhatib, Applied Science University, Jordan

The readership for this book includes practitioners and academics involved in agent technology and Web engineering, software/systems design, networking,telecommunication, and social computing.

– Book News Inc. (March 2009)

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Editor/Author Biographies

Ghazi Alkhatib is an Assistant Professor of Software Engineering at the College of Computer Science and Information Technology, Applied Science University located in Amman, Jordan. In 1984, he obtained his Doctor of Business Administration from Mississippi State University in Information Systems with minors in Computer Science and Accounting. Since then, he has been engaged in teaching, consulting, training, and research in the area of Computer Information Systems in the US and Gulf countries. In addition to his research interests in databases and systems analysis and design, he has published several articles and presented many papers in regional and international conferences on software processes, knowledge management, e-business, Web services, and agent software, workflow, and portal/grid computing integration with Web services.

David Rine has been practicing, teaching ,and researching engineered software development for over thirty years. Prior to joining George Mason University, he served in various leadership roles in the IEEE Computer Society and co-founded two of the technical committees. He joined George Mason University in 1985 and was the founding chair of the Department of Computer Science and one of the founders of the (Volgenau) School of Information Technology and Engineering. Rine has received numerous research, teaching, and service awards from computer science and engineering societies and associations, including the IEEE Centennial Award, IEEE Pioneer Award, IEEE Computer Society Meritorious Service Awards, the IEEE Computer Society Special Awards, IEEE Computer Society 50th anniversary Golden Core Award, and historical IEEE Computer Society Honor Roll and Distinguished Technical Services Awards. He has been a pioneer in graduate, undergraduate, and high school education, producing computer science texts and leading establishment of the International Advanced Placement Computer Science program for the nation's high school students, co-designer of the first computer science and engineering curriculum (1976), and the first masters in software engineering curriculum (1978). He has been an editor of a number of prestigious software-oriented journals. During his tenure, he has authored over 300 published works and has directed many PhD students. Complementing his work at GMU, he has worked on many international technology and relief projects in various countries and made many life-long international friendships. His past students are the most important record of his technical achievements.

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Editorial Advisory Board

Associate Editors:

Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates

Mostafa I. Abd-El-Barr, Kuwait University, Kuwait

Federico Bergenti, Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy

Heiko Ludwig, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA

Michael Berger, Siemens Corporate Technology, Germany

Walter Binder, EPFL, Switzerland

Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Ali A. Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada

N.C. Narendra, IBM Software Labs, India

M. Brian Blake, Georgetown University, USA

International Editorial Advisory Board:

Kirk Arnett, Mississippi State University, USA

Fadila Bentayeb, Université Lumière Lyon 2, France

George M. Giaglis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

Marie-Pierre Gleizes, IRIT -Université Paul Sabatier, France

Ali Jaoua, Qatar University, Qatar

Qusay H. Mahmoud, University of Guelph, Canada

Farid Meziane, The University of Salford, United Kingdom

Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Andres Iglesias Prieto, University of Cantabria, Spain

Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada

Amund Tveit, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Kok-Wai Wong, Murdoch University, Australia

Tony Shan, Wachovia Bank, USA