Web science: an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the Web
Hendler, James, Shadbolt, Nigel, Hall, Wendy, Berners-Lee, Tim and Weitzner, Daniel (2008) Web science: an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the Web. Communications of the ACM, 51, (7), 60-69. (doi:10.1145/1364782.1364798).
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Description/Abstract
Despite the Web’s great success as a technology and the significant amount of computing infrastructure on which it is built, it remains, as an entity, surprisingly unstudied. Here, we look at some of the technical and social challenges that must be overcome to model the Web as a whole, keep it growing, and understand its continuing social impact. A systems approach, in the sense of systems biology, is needed if we are to be able to understand and engineer the future Web.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| ISSNs: | 0001-0782 (print) |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering > Electronics and Computer Science > Web & Internet Science |
| Item ID: | 266555 |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Aug 2008 14:31 |
| Last Modified: | 21 May 2013 15:24 |
| Contributors: | Hendler, James (Author) Shadbolt, Nigel (Author) Hall, Wendy (Author) Berners-Lee, Tim (Author) Weitzner, Daniel (Author) |
| Date: | July 2008 |
| Status: | Published |
| Further Information: | Google Scholar |
| ISI Citation Count: | 42 |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/266555 |
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