Planet Kiwi

Web Application Engineering is a new book where I participated as a co-author. The book provides an overview over various aspects of web application engineering such as the introduction to web technologies, processes, requirements, design, implementation, maintanace and evolution, adaptation, quality assessment, and web 2.0 and semantic web. The book provides a good basis for advanced but also basic course on web engineering but serves also as a reference point to the literature on web engineering area. You can find the book at:

• springer.com
• amazon.com
• amazon.co.uk
• amazon.de

Peter D. (dolog@cs.aau.dk)

New article on social web and knowledge management is out. Sebastian and I participated in joind research vision together with our colleagues from EU FP7 IP Active as a joined collaboration between the KIWI project and ACTIVE. Article discusses the difficulties with adopting web 2.0 and social web technologies from open web in enterprise knowledge management. It sketches various research directions such as personalization, reasoning, enterprise 2.0 integration, information extraction, and incemtives as computing research topics which could help in progressing the enterprise adoption of social web and semantic web technologies. You can find the article at springer link as part of the book: Weaving Services and People on the World Wide Web edited by Irwin King and Ricardo Baeza-Yates.

Peter D. (dolog@cs.aau.dk)

As you might have heard, the KiWi group in Salzburg is participating in a programme called “Generation Innovation” where we take students from technical schools over their summer vacation as interns so that they get to know what research is and what we do. For KiWi, we had 3 interns, and I would say it [...]