Foundations and Trends® in Web Science
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The growth in all aspects of research in the last decade has led to a multitude of new publications and an exponential increase in published research. Finding a way through the excellent existing literature and keeping up to date has become a major time-consuming problem. Electronic publishing has given researchers instant access to more articles than ever before. But which articles are the essentials one that should be read to understand and keep abreast with developments of any topic? To address this problem Foundations and Trends® in Web Science will publish high-quality survey and tutorial monographs of the field using modern techniques to enable both instant linking to the primary research in its electronic form and affordable paper copies, finally delivering on the promise to authors of multiple channel publishing from a single source. Each issue of Foundations and Trends® in Web Science will comprise a 50-100 page monograph written by research leaders in the field. Monographs that give tutorial coverage of subjects, research retrospectives as well as survey papers that offer state-of-the-art reviews fall within the scope of
the journal. Foundations and Trends® in Web Science will publish survey and tutorial
articles in the following topics:

* Agents and the Semantic Web
* Content Management
* Databases on the Web
* Data Mining
* Dependability
* Emergent behaviour
* Human-Computer Interaction
* Hypertext/hypermedia
* Languages on the Web
* Mobile/pervasive
* Multimedia
* Network infrastructures
* Performance
* Scalability
* Security
* Semantic Web – metadata, ontologies
* Standards
* Trust and Provenance (Policy)
* Universal Usability
* User Interfaces
* Web Searching/Information Retrieval
* Web Services