DERI: Digital Enterprise Research Institute

The vision of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute is to be recognised as one of the leading international web science research institutes interlinking technologies, information and people to advance business and benefit society. The success and growth of the Internet and especially the World Wide Web have brought significant changes to everyday life and substantially transformed the way in which business, public, and private interactions are performed. The impact that the Internet and the World Wide Web have had on society can be compared to the introduction of the printing press at the beginning of the modern era. The ability to transmit and store data instantly and with negligible cost has created a universe of accessible information and relationships. Businesses, individuals, governments, science, and society in general are now far more interconnected than they were just a decade ago. This transforms society itself as organisations and communities of individuals are ...