Perspectives in Semantic Adaptive Social Web

The Social Web is now a successful reality with its quickly growing number of users and applications. Also the Semantic Web, which started with the objectives of describing Web resources in a machines-processable way, is now outgrowing the research labs and is being massively exploited in many web sites, incorporating high-quality user generated content and semantic annotations. The primary goal of this special issue is to showcase some recent research in the intersection of Social Web and Semantic Web, that explores the benefits that adaptation and personalization have to offer in the Web of the future, the so-called Social Adaptive Semantic Web. We have selected two papers out of fourteen submissions based on the quality of the papers and we present the main lessons learnt from the overall analysis of these submissions.