Nowadays, Web applications are almost omnipresent. The Web has become a platform not only for information delivery, but also for eCommerce systems, social networks, mobile services, and distributed learning environments. Engineering Web applications involves many intrinsic challenges due to their distributed nature, content orientation, and the requirement to make them available to a wide spectrum of users who are unknown in advance. The authors discuss these challenges in the context of well-established engineering processes, covering the whole product lifecycle from requirements engineering through design and implementation to deployment and maintenance. They stress the importance of models in Web application development, and they compare well-known Web-specific development processes like WebML, WSDM and OOHDM to traditional software development approaches like the waterfall model and the spiral model. .

Nowadays, Web applications are almost omnipresent. The Web has become a platform not only for information delivery, but also for eCommerce systems, social networks, mobile services, and distributed learning environments. Engineering Web applications involves many intrinsic challenges due to their distributed nature, content orientation, and the requirement to make them available to a wide spectrum of users who are unknown in advance. The authors discuss these challenges in the context of well-established engineering processes, covering the whole product lifecycle from requirements engineering through design and implementation to deployment and maintenance. They stress the importance of models in Web application development, and they compare well-known Web-specific development processes like WebML, WSDM and OOHDM to traditional software development approaches like the waterfall model and the spiral model. .

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Web Engineering, ICWE 2016, held in Lugano, Switzerland, in June 2016. The 15 revised full papers together with 5 short papers were selected form 37 submissions. The workshops complement the main conference, and provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss emerging topics. As a result, the workshop committee accepted six workshops, of which the following four contributed papers to this volume: 2nd International Workshop on TEchnical and LEgal aspects of data pRIvacy and SEcurity (TELERISE 2016) 2nd International Workshop on Mining the Social Web (SoWeMine 2016) 1st International Workshop on Liquid Multi-Device Software for the Web (LiquidWS 2016) 5th Workshop on Distributed User Interfaces: Distributing Interactions (DUI 2016)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Web Engineering, ICWE 2014, held in Toulouse, France, in July 2014. The 20 full research papers, 13 late breaking result papers, 15 poster papers, and 4 contributions to the PhD symposium presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 100 submissions. Moreover 3 tutorials and 3 workshops are presented. The papers focus on six research tracks, namely cross-media and mobile Web applications, HCI and the Web, Modelling and Engineering Web applications, quality aspects of Web applications, social Web applications, Web applications composition and mashups.