This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Engineering, ICWE 2009, held in San Sebastian, Spain in June 2009. The 22 revised full papers and 15 revised short papers presented together with 8 posters and 10 demonstration papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on accessibility and usability, component-based web engineering: portals and mashups, data and semantics, model-driven web engineering, navigation, process, planning and phases, quality, rich internet applications, search, testing, web services, SOA and REST, and web 2.0.

Fiber-to-the-Home Technologies is fundamentally based on all the variable factors of development and advancement of the promising technology of FTTH, which is or going to be the key broadband telecom access technique to the end users. The optical technological issues cover from network architectures to component development and integration, including analysis of the transported signals and survey of the FTTH projects and the standards, with the aim to obtain a broad analysis of all technical elements and concepts involved in near future deployment.

FTTH is the key true broadband telecom access technique to the end-users. It is lately gaining a practical high interest as enabling technological limitations are being solved, in a cost-effective way. While access network deployment based on fiber is becoming comparable in cost to competing technologies (and even cheaper in some scenarios), the great difference on performances and future-proof technology, makes today the fiber an attractive choice. The increasing interest for new broadband IP services like bi-directional video communications between individuals will be only efficiently supported in its full quality by the optical media.

The text represents a prospect of future in access networks. Considering their direct impact in both the end-users and operators or service-providers, we consider it can bring a new era, generating new perspectives and jobs. Fiber-to-the-Home Technologies tries to make people know about the existence and incredible perspectives of Fiber-to-the-Home.

As a conclusion, the presented techno-economical advances in all-optical access networks in this text, both in research and commercial levels, reveal that Fiber-To-The-Home can feasibly progress from the research stage to the massive commercial field in a hopefully short-term period. Even today, the analysis leads the fiber to be considered as the right medium choice in new access network deployment for new operators.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of Current Trends in Web Engineering, ICWE Workshops 2015 which was held in June 2015 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The 16 revised full papers were selected form 23 submissions and cover topics on natural language processing for informal text, pervasive Web technologies, trends and challenges, and mining in the social Web.

Here's a thorough introduction to the latest developments in database systems design presented from an applications point of view. Featuring contributions from well-known experts in the field, this book pays special attention to issues raised by new trends in database design, and how these developments affect the programmer and database administrator.

Los modelos que se han desarrollado a partir de las investigaciones acerca de las competencias ha venido a aportar a las empresas una herramienta potente de gestion que le agrega valor al trabajador y participa como un elemento mas para que este a traves de sus acciones aporte a la calidad, el clima organizacional, la rentabilidad, la diferenciacion; para de este modo conformar organizaciones exitosas con la base humana de excelencia que puede encontrarse en toda compania lider de su mercado. Muchas organizaciones creen que con el solo hecho de tener perfiles de cargo se esta haciendo una Gestion por Competencias. Esto no es asi, ya que al implementar una gestion de manera efectiva se requiere un cambio de sistema, y la implementacion en los procesos clave de la Gestion de Recursos Humanos por Competencias. Si bien, los perfiles de cargo pueden servir para la seleccion, evaluacion de desempeno y capacitacion, la ejecucion de estos procesos es una verdadera Gestion por Competencias, sin dejar de lado la Cultura Organizacional."