]> 2012-02-11T03:35:26-05:00 Web science: an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the web Despite the huge success of the World Wide Web as a technology, and the significant amount of computing infrastructure on which it sits, the Web, as an entity remains surprisingly unstudied. In this article, we look at some of the issues that need to be explored to model the Web as a whole, to keep it growing, and to understand its continuing social impact. We argue that a "systems" approach, in the sense of "systems biology" is needed if we are to be able to understand and engineer the future of the Web. article dblp:journals/cacm/hendlershbw08 7 60-69 Web science: an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the web TW-2008-08 2008 Year 51 Volume Tr id Title Computer science Tag Source Paper url Media:TW-2008-08.pdf Paper Pages Number Key Commun. ACM Journal Doi Bibtype Daniel J. Weitzner Tim Berners-Lee Wendy Hall Nigel Shadbolt James A. Hendler Author Abstract TW Technical Report Publication Journal Paper