Workshop Rationale and Aims
Current Web applications are evolutionary in their nature:
in several scenarios, such class of systems require (frequent)
changes of content, functionality, semantics, structure, navigation,
presentation or implementation. On one hand, the current advances
in the communication and network technologies provide users
with different types of mobile devices for accessing at any
time from anywhere and with any media services and contents
customized to user profiles and usage environments. Such new
needs demand for the development of adaptive Web systems, able
to support more effective and efficient interactions in all
those situations where the contents and services offered by
the Web application strongly depend on the current environmental
situation, users' (dis)abilities, and/or the actual purpose
of the application. On the other hand, the structure, navigation
and presentation of Web applications, the content and its semantics
are typically highly volatile, and evolve due to a variety of
reasons, such as:
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changes to the design of the application
(e.g. to correct design flaws, or to support new requirements)
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adaptation to new technologies
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changes to maintain consistency with (changing)
external sources (e.g. a referenced ontology, externally linked
pages)
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update/change (by the user) of for example
content, structure, navigation, presentation (e.g. relevant
with the rise of blogs, wiki’s, etc.)
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Properly dealing with evolution will clearly
influence the quality of a Web site (i.e. incorrect linking
due to changes, unreachable pages and their automatic repair,
consistency, etc). Similarly, provisions to automatically
deal with evolution and its consequences will become indispensable
in large-scale Web applications (where manual management of
changes and their impact is unfeasible). Also, when ontologies
are used to describe or annotate content on Web sites, evolution
of these ontologies may have an impact on the validity of
the Web sites that refer to these ontologies, and changes
in a Web page might invalidate semantic annotations. Although
highly relevant due to the intrinsic evolutionary nature of
Web applications, the problem of dealing with adaptation and
evolution of Web applications (both during design, implementation
and deployment) and its impact is highly under-estimated;
so far few works dealt with it in Web Engineering research.
AEWSE therefore aims at bringing together researchers and
practitioners with different research interests and belonging
to communities like Web Engineering, Adaptive Hypermedia,
User Modeling, Active Databases, Semantic Web, Ontology Evolution,
Database Evolution, Temporal Data, Software Engineering and
Mobile Computing. The ultimate goal is to facilitate the discussion
of key issues, approaches, open problems, innovative applications,
and trends in these research areas, for identifying methodologies
and technologies to support adaptive access to and/or evolution
in (the design of) Web applications.
Topics of Interests
Areas of particular interest for the Workshop include (but are not
limited to):
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Context-aware Web systems
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Reactive Web systems
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Personalization of Web systems
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Ubiquitous and mobile systems
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Multimodal adaptive Web systems
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Multi-device applications
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Semantic Web technologies for adaptivity
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Adaptive Web services
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Languages for adaptivity specification
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Requirements analysis for adaptive Web systems
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Conceptual and data models for adaptive Web systems
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Model-based methods for adaptive Web systems design
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Aspect-oriented methods for adaptive Web systems design
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Model-based testing of adaptive Web systems or Testing of
adaptive Web systems
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Evaluation of adaptive Web systems
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Technologies enabling adaptivity
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Web Application Evolution
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Ontology Evolution w.r.t. Web Engineering
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Adaptation and Personalization
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Consistency and Evolution
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Temporal Web content
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Content Management Systems & Web application design
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Web Site Design Methods & Evolution
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Ontology based Web Application Design & Ontology Evolution
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Adaptable User Interfaces
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Changes/evolution & trust/security (e.g. wikipedia)
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Website Version Management (WIKI, …)
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Web 2.0 w.r.t. Change / Evolution
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Case studies and industrial experiences, related to these
themes
Target Audiences
AEWSE aims at bringing together researchers and
practitioners from Web engineering, user modeling, adaptive hypermedia,
ontology evolution, (active) databases, database evolution, software
architectures, mobile computing and ubiquitous information systems,
whose work may contribute to the study of evolution in Web applications
and the engineering of adaptive Web systems. To enable lively and
productive discussions, the desired number of participants is minimum
15, maximum 30. The submission of a paper or a position statement
is highly recommended.
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