Special Issue of APWeb-WAIM 2018
Yi Cai, Jianliang Xu, Qing Li · Data Science and Engineering · 2019
We are pleased to present a special issue of Data Science and Engineering (DSE), which contains a collection of three extended papers from the APWeb-WAIM 2018 conference.Besides these three special issue papers, this DSE issue also has three regular research papers.APWeb-WAIM conferences focus on research, development, and applications in relation to Web information management, including a wide range of topics, such as text analysis, graph data processing, social networks, recommender systems, information retrieval, data streams, knowledge graph, data mining and application, query processing, machine learning, database and Web applications, big data, and blockchain.APWeb-WAIM 2018 was held in Macau during July 23-25, 2018, and attracted a total of 168 research paper submissions.The conference program committee selected 39 full research papers, 31 short papers, and six demonstration papers to be presented at the conference and published in the conference proceedings [1,2].The conference program also included keynote presentations by Prof.