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Foreword: This book contains the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST 2018), which was organized and sponsored by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC) and co-organized by University of Seville. The conference was held in cooperation with the European Research Center for Information System (ERCIS), the Open Group, the Association Tunisienne pour l'Intelligence Artificielle (ATIA) and the Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC). The purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in technological advances and business applications of web-based information systems. WEBIST featured five main topic areas, covering different aspects of Web Information Systems, namely Internet Technology, Mobile and NLP Information Systems, Service Based Information Systems, Platforms and Eco-Systems, Web Intelligence, and Web Interfaces. WEBIST 2018 received 68 paper submissions from 24 countries, of which 21% were accepted as full papers. To evaluate each submission, a double blind paper review was performed by the Program Committee, whose members are highly qualified independent researchers in the WEBIST topic areas. The high quality of the WEBIST 2018 programme was enhanced by three keynote lectures, delivered by experts in their fields, including: Antonia Bertolino (Italian National Research Council – CNR, Italy), Davide Rossi, (University of Bologna, Italy), and Oscar Pastor (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain). In addition, the 3rd International Special Session on Advanced practices in Model-Driven Web Engineering – APMDWE, chaired by J.G. Enríquez, Julián Alberto García García and Laura García Borgoñón and the Special Session on Internet of Things and Smart Communities - ITSCO, chaired by Liliana Enciso were held together with WEBIST 2018. All presented papers will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), DBLP, EI (Elsevier Index) Scopus and Semantic Scholar, as well as being made available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. Besides the proceedings edited by SCITEPRESS, a post-conference book will be compiled with extended versions of the conference´s best papers and published by Springer in a Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) Series book. The best contributions to the conference and the best student submissions were distinguished with awards based on the best combined marks of paper reviewing, as assessed by the Program Committee, and the quality of the presentation, as assessed by session chairs at the conference venue. Building an interesting and successful program for the conference required the dedicated effort of many people. Firstly, we greatly thank the authors, whose research and development efforts are recorded here. Secondly, we thank the members of the program committee and additional reviewers for their diligence and expert reviewing. We also wish to include here a word of appreciation for the excellent organization provided by the conference secretariat, from INSTICC, which has smoothly and efficiently prepared the appropriate environment for a productive meeting and scientific networking. Last but not least, we thank the invited speakers for their invaluable contribution and for taking the time to synthesize and deliver their talks. (More)

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