| Since the advent of the Web, every aspect of our lives and organizational activities has changed dramatically. Organizations’ expectations and dependencies on the use of Web technologies have increased rapidly over the years. Most organizations have conceived these Web technologies as a critical instrument for enhancing their performance; they have made every effort to develop, use, and maintain Web-based applications successfully. Nevertheless, such efforts are faced with various complexity and diversity caused by the demands for not only developing large-scale systems but also extending their applications into various domains. In most cases, these challenges are handled in an ad hoc manner rather than systematically. This phenomenon is a result of the fact that the progress of development and maintenance processes of Web applications have not kept up sufficiently with the rapid expansion of the challenges.
As a new approach to solve such challenges, Web Engineering has recently drawn great attention. Web Engineering is a multidisciplinary field encompassing diverse principles primarily based on management information systems and computer science. Its major specific areas include systems analysis and design, software engineering, hypermedia engineering, human-computer interaction, requirement engineering, data mining, project management, artificial intelligence, and Web programming. Web Engineering has the purpose of effectively supporting the organizational activities concerned with the lifecycle of Web applications or Web projects. Such activities include the following issues primarily: development and maintenance process, quality assessment, Web intelligence, Web resource management, and Web project management. These issues are often dealt with in terms of methodology, process, model, technique, or technology.
This book is organized into six sections: Web Engineering: Concepts and Reference Model; Web Application Development: Methodologies and Techniques; Web Metrics and Quality: Models and Methods; Web Resource Management: Models and Techniques; Web Maintenance and Evolution: Techniques and Methodologies; and Web Intelligence: Techniques and Applications.
About the Author Woojong Suh is an Assistant Professor of MIS/e-Business field in the College of Business Administration at Inha University, Korea. He received his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the Graduate School of Management at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Seoul Korea. He earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees in Applied Statistics from Yonsei University, Seoul. He has performed large-scale projects concerned with e-Biz and KM, as a senior consultant of e-KM team at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Consulting Korea and as a research fellow of e-Biz Research Center at POSCO Research Institute (POSRI). He is the author of more than 40 articles published in e-Biz/MIS-related conference proceedings and journals such as Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, Journal of Systems and Software, Journal of Database Management, Journal of Expert Systems and Applications, Information and Software Technology. His research interests include Web Engineering, Hypermedia Design, Web-based Information System(WIS) Development Methodology, Web Resource Management, Workflow Modeling, and Knowledge Management. |