Welcome to the tenth anniversary of the International Conference on Web Information Systems
Engineering WISE 2009. This year the WISE conference continued the tradition that has evolved
from the inaugural conference held in 2000 in Hong Kong and since then has made its journey
around the world: 2001 Kyoto (Japan) 2002 Singapore 2003 Rome (Italy) 2004 Brisbane
(Australia) 2005 New York (USA) 2006 Wuhan (China) 2007 Nancy (France) and 2008 Auckland
(New Zealand). This year we were happy to hold the event in Poznan a city of 600 000
inhabitants in western Poland. Poznan is the capital of the most affluent province of the
country - Wielkopolska - which means Greater Poland. For more than 1 000 years Poznan's
geographical location has predestined the city to be a significant scientific cultural and
economic center with more than just regional influence. The city is situated on the strategic
cross-roads from Paris and Berlin in the west to Warsaw and Moscow in the east and from
Scandinavia through the Baltic Sea in the north to the Balkans in the south. Poznan is a great
research and university center with a dynamic potential. In all 140 000 students are enrolled
in 26 state-run and private institutions of higher education here among which the Poznan
University of Economics with its 12 000 students is one of the biggest. The WISE 2009
Conference provided a forum for engineers and scientists to present their latest findings in
Web-related technologies and solutions.
