Special issue IEEE Internet Computing "Information Quality in the Internet Era"

"Information Quality in the Internet Era" Final submission due 15 November 2009 Please email the guest editors a brief description of the article you plan to submit by 1 November 2009 Guest Editors: Carlo Batini (batini@disco.unimib.it), Elisa Bertino (bertino@cerias.purdue.edu), Monica Scannapieco (scannapi@istat.it), and Andrea Maurino (maurino@disco. unimib.it) In the Internet era, information is accessible and published by everyone in a free and uncontrolled way. New technologies such as mashups and service-oriented computing let users search data and use it to provide new services. New kinds of data types, such as geographical and multimedia video, are becoming common in the day-by-day user experience. This incredible amount of available data introduces new, challenging data quality problems. Low information quality is common in governmental, commercial, and industrial Web applications (including Web 2.0 tools). We can no longer ignore alarming situations involving various information quality problems (such as accessibility or data preservation) and new theoretical as well as pragmatic approaches are needed. As a consequence, information quality on the Web is becoming one of the most interesting topics in the academic and industrial communites. This special issue of IC seeks original reserch contributions, industrial experience, and case studies relaing to all aspects of information quality in the Internet. Appropriate topics include - information integration and fusion; - information quality in multimedia, semistructured, and unstructured data; - information quality in Web applications (including Web 2.0 tools); - information quality in sensor networks; - information quality assessment; and - information quality methodologies.