First Workshop on PErvasive WEb Technologies, Trends and Challenges (PEWET 2015)

摘要

Organizers: Fernando Ferri, Patrizia Grifoni, Alessia D'Andrea, and Tiziana Guzzo, Istituto di Ricerche sulla Popolazione e le Politiche Sociali (IRPPS), National Research Council, Italy Pervasive Information Technologies, such as mobile devices, social media, cloud, etc., are increasingly enabling people to easily communicate and to share information and services by means of read-write Web and user generated contents. They influence the way individuals communicate, collaborate, learn, and build relationships. The enormous potential of Pervasive Information Technologies have led scientific communities in different disciplines, from computer science to social science, communication science, and economics, to analyze, study, and provide new theories, models, methods, and case studies. The scientific community is very interested in discussing and developing theories, methods, models, and tools for Pervasive Information Technologies. Challenging activities that have been conducted in Pervasive Information Technologies include social media management tools & platforms, community management strategies, Web applications and services, social structure and community modeling, etc. To discuss such research topics, the PErvasive WEb Technologies, trends and challenges (PEWET) workshop was organized in conjunction with the 15th International Conference on Web Engineering - ICWE 2015. The workshop, held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on June 23-26, 2015, provided a forum for the discussion of Pervasive Web Technologies theories, methods, and experiences. The workshop organizers decided to have an invited talk, and after a review process selected five papers for inclusion in the ICWE workshops proceedings. Each of these submissions was rigorously peer reviewed by at least three experts. The papers were judged according to their originality, significance to theory and practice, readability, and relevance to workshop topics. The invited talk discussed the fractally-organized connectionist networks that according to the speaker may provide a convenient means to achieve what Leibniz calls "an art of complication," namely an effective way to encapsulate complexity and practically extend the applicability of connectionism to domains such as socio-technical system modeling and design.