This book grew out of the First Symposium on the Personal Web co-located with CASCON 2010 in
Markham Ontario Canada. The purpose of the symposium was to bring together prominent
researchers and practitioners from a diverse range of research areas relevant to the
advancement of science and practice relating to the Personal Web. Research on the Personal Web
is an outgrowth of the Smart Internet initiative which seeks to extend and transform the web
to be centred on the user with the web as a calm platform ubiquitously providing cognitive
support to its user and his or her tasks. As with the preceding SITCON workshop (held at CASCON
2009) this symposium involved a multi-disciplinary effort that brought together researchers
and practitioners in data integration web services modelling and architecture human-computer
interaction predictive analytics cloud infrastructure semantics and ontology and industrial
application domains such as health care and finance. The discussions during the symposium dealt
with different aspects of the architecture and functionality needed to make the Personal Web a
reality. After the symposium the authors reworked their presentations into draft chapters that
were submitted for peer evaluation and review. Every chapter went through two rounds of
reviewing by at least two independent expert reviewers and accepted chapters were then revised
and are presented in this book.
