SIMPLE EVOLUTION OF COMPLEX WEB SYSTEMS

Lech Krzanik

2007

Abstract

Usability implies effective, efficient and satisfactory interaction with a system when using it. Similar properties are not usually considered when an end user is faced with evolutionary developing or improving a system – an activity increasingly more often, particularly when the context of using a system undergoes frequent and significant changes. Project Nomadic Media investigated possibilities for user-participative, effective, efficient and satisfactory evolution of nomadic systems. We considered geographically distributed, context-sensitive, personalized systems, exploiting various web services and allowing for a general function referred to as nomadic blogging. In this paper we demonstrate general policies of evolution and the specific ways of end-user interaction with the evolving system. The overall strategy may be generally described as simplicity – effective with clear and straightforward goals, efficient in terms of resources spent at each small evolutionary delivery step and satisfactory in terms of end-user participation and reaching the explicit planned user targets. Results of experiments with such systems are demonstrated.

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Krzanik L. (2007). SIMPLE EVOLUTION OF COMPLEX WEB SYSTEMS . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST, ISBN 978-972-8865-78-8, pages 340-346. DOI: 10.5220/0001288803400346


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@conference{webist07,
author={Lech Krzanik},
title={SIMPLE EVOLUTION OF COMPLEX WEB SYSTEMS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST,},
year={2007},
pages={340-346},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001288803400346},
isbn={978-972-8865-78-8},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST,
TI - SIMPLE EVOLUTION OF COMPLEX WEB SYSTEMS
SN - 978-972-8865-78-8
AU - Krzanik L.
PY - 2007
SP - 340
EP - 346
DO - 10.5220/0001288803400346