This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Web
Information Systems and Technologies WEBIST 2017 held in Porto Portugal in April 2017. The
purpose of the WEBIST series of conferences is to bring together researches engineers and
practitioners interested in technological advances and business applications of web-based
information systems. The 12 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and
selected from originally 77 paper submissions. They contribute to the understanding of relevant
trends of current research on Web information systems and technologies comprising unified
interfaces Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) as well as a mobile device taxonomy XML and open data
processing the history of Web engineering web development for end-users access control Web
platform assessment rule engines and scientific blogging.