Nowadays, various services can be digitalized and can be achieved by users via various digital carriers. For illustration, e-learning, e-banking, online shopping and even e-government, more and more traditional applications are becoming electronic service. To realize user requirements and behaviors of service-oriented age is a getting important issue. For examples, AI applications for e-Service Content Design, AI applications for E-learning, AI applications for Digital Content Design, AI applications for Learning Behavior Analysis, AI applications for E-finance, AI applications for Search Engine, AI applications for Knowledge Management, AI applications for Personalization e-service Recommender, Case Study of E-Service applications Practices and Business Model for E-Service Applications.
In this special issue, we invited some papers from AIAE (Artificial Intelligence Applications for E-services) 2009. All of these papers have been reviewed with second round and were recommended to contain 30% more new material to be accepted and published in this Special Issue.
The first paper “A Bibliometric Study of Search Engine Literature in the SSCI Database” investigates the publishing trends in the period 1995-2009 of search engine in the social sciences citation index (SSCI) database. Wen-Jen Yu and Shrane Koung Chou show that (1) the quantity of recent research on search engine study is expanding remarkably; (2) the frequency indices of author productivity appear to abide by Lotka’s Law; (3) most research papers on search engine study are generated by multiple authors; and (4) applications of search engine study are most frequent in research areas such as information science, information systems of computer science, and interdisciplinary applications of computer science.
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