Web Engineering and Adaptation

Engineering contemporary information systems in the Web includes facilities to make the access to information depend on the user and the user's context of usage. In the research on Web Engineering and Adaptation the challenge is to develop methods and techniques to include adaptation and contextualization in the engineering of web-based information systems. 

The purpose is to construct information systems that continue to meet the demands of their end-users. The field of Web engineering and in particular adaptation is driven by the implications of a Web that is larger, more open, and more social than in earlier generations of Web applications: the focus is on the realization of solutions that allow to incrementally embed and configure adaptation as part of existing applications, thus extending and enriching them.

The WIS group has in adaptation engineering specialized in semantics-based and user model-driven adaptation.

Research Activities

Examples of relevant research activities:

  • WUDE - Web user demand elicitation in cultural heritage access
  • Twinder - Finding interesting information in Social Web streams
  • Twitcident - Using relevant tweets during big incidents
  • GRAPPLE - Adaptation in technology-enhanced learning
  • Hera - Semantics-based adaptation engineering
  • ATSearch - Adaptive Faceted Search on Twitter

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This research is inspired by the question "How can information systems know their users?": How can the software of web-based information systems know who their users and their relevant properties are in order to adapt to them and make the information exchange fitting for the users?