Special Issue on Ad anced
P ac ices in Web Enginee ing 2021
M. A. Oli e o, J. G. En ´
ıquez and A. Jim´
enez-Ram´
ı ez
Compu e Languages and Sys ems Depa men . Escuela T´
ecnica Supe io de
Ingenie ´
ıa In o m´
a ica, A enida Reina Me cedes, s/n, 41012, Se illa, Spain
E-mail: moli e [email p o ec ed]; [email p o ec ed]; aj ami [email p o ec ed]
Edi o ial
No el y in Web Enginee ing a ises when his a ea is join ly applied wi h
o he eme ging and inno a i e ones. The ans e ence o Web Enginee -
ing esea ch esul s o indus ial applica ions is quick due o he ex ensi e
domains o applica ions ha his a ea o knowledge has. Each yea he e
a e mo e and mo e use s appealing o i . Consequen ly, he use s’ expec-
a ions and demands on his a ea a e highe and highe . Thus, he abili y
o esea che s and de elope s o adop ad anced p ac ices and adap o
inno a i e app oaches wi hin Web Enginee ing has a emendous and di ec
impac on socie y.
This special issue con ains a selec ion o ad anced p ac ices on Web
Enginee ing, acco ding o hei ele ance and no el y. Six s udies ha e been
conside ed as highly ele an o he con enien de elopmen o ac ual web-
based applica ions. Such selec ion has been o ganized in o h ee main a eas
based on he ocus o each s udy. These a eas a e: So wa e De elopmen ,
Applied Technologies, and Linguis ic App oaches.
So wa e De elopmen
Rega ding So wa e De elopmen , he chosen s udies ocus on semi-
au oma ic so wa e gene a ion and li ecycle ac i i ies measu emen .
We begin wi h he need o gene a e web applica ions sys ema ically.
In his con ex , he pape p esen ed by Ramos-Vidal e al. has p oposed a
i M. A. Oli e o e al.
So wa e P oduc Line (SPL) app oach o he semi-au oma ic gene a ion
o Digi al Lib a ies (DL). The au ho s aim o allow de elope s o speci y
which DL ea u es a e equi ed o de ine he da a model and gene a e he
sou ce code. Consequen ly, au ho s ha e ound a way o sa ing e o s when
de eloping an SPL.
Along wi h he de elopmen o web applica ions, Web Enginee ing is
en iched by applying so wa e me hodologies. Measu ing he de elopmen
ac i i ies allows o op imize he use o esou ces and educe cos s. In his
ega d, he esea ch conduc ed by Meidan e al. desc ibes a solu ion o
suppo he measu emen ac i i ies h oughou he p ocess li ecycle. Thei
app oach allows o ganiza ions o de ine, manage and imp o e hei p ocesses.
Mo e p ecisely, i has been p o en o suppo and guide he enginee s in he
comple e and ope a ional de ini ion o he measu emen concep s h ough
se e al indus ial expe iences.
Applied Technologies
The second selec ed ad anced a ea ha mode n web applica ions should con-
side is Applied Technologies. Tha is, making mo e echnologies a ailable
in he con ex o Web Enginee ing. Selec ed s udies o applied echnologies
ocus on he Voice use in e aces and Sma Con ac s.
On he one hand, Voice Assis an s (VAs) a e being used highly equen ly
and highly a ailable in he consume sec o . They a e also p ojec ed o do
excep ionally well in en e p ise applica ions wo ldwide. Howe e , he VA
adop ion a e o in e ne use s di e s among Eu opean coun ies and also
in he global iew. In he pape p esen ed by Klein e al., au ho s desc ibe
an in e cul u al s udy o echnology- iendly use s om Ge many and Spain.
Acco ding o hei esul s, despi e he cul u al di e ences, hey ound ha
nea ly he same amoun o in ensi e VA usage is ound in bo h echnology-
iendly use g oups. Mo eo e , bo h coun ies’ pa icipan s showed e y
simila endencies, equency o use, p i acy conce ns, and demand o VA.
On he o he hand, Sma con ac s a e in ended o au oma ically execu e,
con ol, o documen legally ele an e en s and ac ions. So wa e enginee s
mus deal wi h us wo hy collabo a i e p ocesses o ensu e he quali y o
sma con ac s in all phases o he sma con ac li ecycle. The c i icali y
o sma con ac s in business en i onmen s o ces so wa e enginee s o ep-
esen sma con ac s in an in ui i e and easy- o-use language, independen
o he blockchain pla o m and o ien ed owa ds so wa e quali y assu ance.
In his meaning, S´
anchez-G´
omez e al. p esen an inno a i e componen . The
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i s ou line o a UML-based sma con ac me a-model ha would allow
so wa e enginee s o achie e hese objec i es
Linguis ic App oaches
The hi d g oup o s udies o his special issue ocuses on Linguis ic
App oaches. Two wo ks ha e gene a ed knowledge ega ding he use o
na u al language wi hin he Web Enginee ing ield.
As he numbe o web pages, se ices, and sys ems keeps g owing, i is
mo e and mo e ele an o ha e ools capable o unde s anding hei con en
and classi y hem. This is he pu pose o he manusc ip by Gup a and Bha ia.
These au ho s p oposed a Web Page Classi ica ion ha asses p ede ined
labels o classi ying web pages using a p ope subse o ele an ea u es.
To achie e such a goal, hey desc ibe an ensemble Knowledge-Based Deep
Incep ion (KBDI) app oach o web page classi ica ion. Thei expe imen al
e alua ion has p o en hei app oach o p o ide momen ous imp o emen
compa ed o o he ans e lea ning pe spec i es o web page classi ica ion
asks.
The las s udy ga he ed in his special issue deals wi h On ology Engi-
nee ing and i s cos s es ima ion. On ologies a e con olled ocabula ies ha
se e as a schema o speci ying he e ms o a domain o in e es . They
se e as he seman ic da a model o knowledge managemen , in o ma ion
e ie al, in o ma ion in eg a ion, seman ic web applica ions, and in elligen
in o ma ion sys ems Malik and Jain p opose an e o es ima ion me hod-
ology o on ology enginee ing using Fuzzy Logic, which has been named
F-ONTOCOM. Thei app oach add esses he uzziness in ol ed in hese
es ima ions. The au ho s ha e conduc ed an expe imen al e alua ion and
p o ed ha hei app oach imp o es he accu acy o cos es ima ion baselines.