Brazilian Institute for Web Science Research

Coordination: Prof. Carlos José Pereira de Lucena, Departamento de Informática, PUC-Rio

The Institute's program addresses five dimensions of Web Science Research:

• People and Society
• Software Technologies for Web Applications
• Management of Web Data
• Web Infrastructure
• Foundations of Web Science

The Institute involves over 100 researchers. The following institutions are part of the Institute:

• PUC-Rio - Departamento de Informática
• UFRJ - Programa de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computação
• UNICAMP - Instituto de Computação
• Rede Nacional de Pesquisa
• UERJ
• UENF
• UFC
• UFRN
• UNIRio

Links

• Institute's introduction report (PDF, 2.6 MB)
• Program of the First Workshop of the Brazilian Institute of Web Science Research
• Institute's WIKI (access to some pages is restricted to project members)
• First report - June 2010 - English version - Portuguese version (PDF, 1 MB)