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. Examples of such applications are found in
domains as eHealth, eGovernment, eLearning, and Business to Business
interactions such as open marketplaces. In all these domains,
the Web enables to do business or professional activities on the
Internet. However, application services change over time due to
new knowledge, practices, processes, and management approaches
in the application domains. Moreover, recent advances in communication
and network technologies provide users the ability to access content
with different types of (mobile) devices, at any time, from anywhere,
and with any media service. 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 serices
offered by the Web application are (rapidly) changing, and/or
strongly depend on the current environmental situation, users'
(dis)abilities, and/or the actual purpose of the application.
Due to the changes in the application domains, 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 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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maintenance
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 infeasible).
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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Adaptive or adaptable Web systems (e.g. context-aware, reactive,
personalized systems)
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Ubiquitous and mobile systems
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Multi-device/Multi-modal adaptive Web systems
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Testing and evaluation of adaptive Web systems
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Web system evolution
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Requirements analysis 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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Adaptability and adaptation in Service Oriented Architectures
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Semantic Web technologies for adaptivity
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Ontology evolution w.r.t. Web Engineering
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Consistency and evolution
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Technologies enabling adaptivity
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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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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 35.