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Towards a theory for the evolution of the Web

Towards a theory for the evolution of the Web. Guus Schreiber 1 Wendy Hall, Nigel Shadbolt 2 1 VU University Amsterdam 2 University of Southampton. We need to study the Web as a phenomenon. Is the Web changing faster than our ability to observe it? How to measure or instrument the Web?

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Towards a theory for the evolution of the Web

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  1. Towards a theory for the evolution of the Web Guus Schreiber 1 Wendy Hall, Nigel Shadbolt 2 1 VU University Amsterdam 2 University of Southampton

  2. We need to study the Web as a phenomenon • Is the Web changing faster than our ability to observe it? • How to measure or instrument the Web? • How to identify behaviours and patterns ? • How to analyse the changing structure of the Web? Sample research themes: • Web dynamics • Collective intelligence • Privacy, trust and security • Linked open data FET Flagships, Brussels

  3. Ambition: towards a theory of the evolution of the Web • Growth theries of the Web • Predictive theories for success of new Web technologies • Laws of behaviour for Web communities • Theories for quality assessment of Web information FET Flagships, Brussels

  4. FET Flagships, Brussels

  5. Integrationinter/multi/trans-diciplinary See WST roadmap FET Flagships, Brussels

  6. Plausibility:Focus on Collective Intelligence • Collective intelligence is the surprising resultof technnological innovation and collaborative endeavour • Potential is huge • Sample research challenges: • predictable CI engineering • socio-economic and personal drivers • cross language/culture/gender perspectives • risk-management of community-generated information FET Flagships, Brussels

  7. Support • Backbone: leading institutes of Web Science research • Focus on trans-diciplinary studies: • with life sciences on global knowledge management • with humanities on multi-perspective views of history and heritage (in broad sense) • with social sciences on community behaviour FET Flagships, Brussels

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