Volume 8, Issue 2

Special Issue on Web and Distributed Information Systems

Guest Editors:
Muhammed Younas, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK
Kuo-Ming Chao, Coventry University, Coventry, UK
Ying Huang, IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

Table of Contents

Web and distributed information systems: Special issue of the journal of information systems frontiers (253-254)
Muhammad Younas, Kuo-Ming Chao and Ying Huang

A user-friendly platform for developing and accessing grid services (255-269)
Hiroyuki Morohoshi, Runhe Huang and Jianhua Ma

Satisfiability and trustworthiness of acquaintances in peer-to-peer overlay networks (271-284)
Kenichi Watanabe, Tomoya Enokido and Makoto Takizawa

Mobility management for m-commerce requests in wireless cellular networks (285-295)
Irfan Awan

A web-based e-learning system for increasing study efficiency by stimulating learner’s motivation (297-306)
Leonard Barolli, Akio Koyama, Arjan Durresi and Giuseppe De Marco

The realization of service-oriented e-Marketplaces (307-319)
Yinsheng Li, Xiaohua Lu, Kuo-Ming Chao, Ying Huang and Muhammad Younas

Parameter learning of personalized trust models in broker-based distributed trust management (321-333)
Jane Yung-jen Hsu, Kwei-Jay Lin, Tsung-Hsiang Chang, Chien-ju Ho, Han-Shen Huang and Wan-rong Jih