Message from the General Chairs

WISA 2012, the 9th Web Information Systems and Applications Conference wa held in Haikou, China, and was sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and Chinese Computer Federation. In addition the SWON 2012 and EGTA 2012 workshops were held in conjunction with WISA 2012. WISA 2012 is an annual national conference on Web Information Systems and Applications (WISA) sponsored by the Technical Committee of Office Automation of China Computer Federation. Two workshops SWON 2012 and EGTA 2012 are held in conjunction with the main conference. Previous WISA conferences were held in Wuhan (2004), Shenyang (2005), Nanjing (2006), Beijing (2007), Xi´an (2008), Xuzhou (2009), Huhehot (2010), and Chongqing (2011). This year, SWON is the 7th workshop on Semantic Web and Ontology while EGTA is the 6th workshop on Electronic Government Technology and Application.