Foreword

The International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE), held in Rome, 10-13 December 2003, hosted three satellite workshops, on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems (W2GIS), Web Services Quality (WQW), and Multichannel and Mobile Information Systems (MMIS), respectively. This volume contains the joint workshops proceedings and includes 30 high-quality papers (the overall workshop acceptance rate was about 50%). In particular, the W2GIS workshop selected 12 papers and a keynote talk, the WQW workshop selected 9 papers, and the MMIS workshop selected 9 papers. The papers presented in this volume have been revised by the authors, according to the useful workshop attendees´ feedback.