The aim of this 16th edition of the conference series on Web Information Systems Engineering is to provide an international forum for researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners to share their knowledge in the rapidly growing area of Web technologies, methodologies and applications. Previous WISE conferences were held in Hong Kong, China (2000), Kyoto, Japan (2001), Singapore (2002), Roma, Italy (2003), Brisbane, Australia (2004), New York, USA (2005), Wuhan, China (2006), Nancy, France (2007), Auckland, New Zealand (2008), Poznan, Poland (2009), Hong Kong, China (2010), Sydney, Australia (2011), Paphos, Cyprus (2012), Nanjing, China (2013), and Thessaloniki, Greece (2014). The proceedings of WISE 2015 will be published by Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science series and the best papers will be recommended for publication in special issues of World Wide Web and other international Journals special issues.

WISE 2015 welcomes all submissions that fall in the domain of Web information systems engineering and topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

Web Information Retrieval
Web Data Models
Web search and information extraction
Web Mining and Web Warehousing
Web engineering, metrics and performance
Deep/Hidden Web
Web‐based Business Processes and Web Services
Web‐based Enterprise Systems
Web Security and Trust Management
Web Tools and Languages
Visualization for the Web and Rich Web UI
Web‐based Applications (e.g., e‐Commerce, e‐Government, e‐earning, etc.)
Big Data Techniques and Applications
Social Web models, analysis and mining
Social Networks Computing
Social web and Applications
Web big data techniques and mining
Integration of Web and Internet‐connected Objects (IoT)
Semantic Web
Web Agents and Web Intelligence
Linked Open Data
Web Data Integration and Mashups
Mobile Web
Web privacy management
Cloud Computing
Future Internet Architectures and Protocols
Human Factors and Social Issues