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Gustavo Rossi
Information Storage and Retrieval
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Web Application Models Are More than Conceptual Models
In this paper we argue that Web applications are a particular kind of hypermedia application and show how to model their navigational structure. We argue that if we need to design applications combining hyperm...
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Abstraction and Reuse Mechanisms in Web Application Models
In this paper we analyze different abstraction and reuse mechanisms that should be used in Web applications to improve their evolution and maintenance. We first review the OOHDM approach for defining a Web app...
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Specifying Quality Characteristics and Attributes for Websites
In this work, we outline more than a hundred characteristics and attributes for the domain of academic sites in order to analyze the quality requirement tree and a way to specify them. These elements are used ...
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Web Design Frameworks: An Approach to Improve Reuse in Web Applications
In this paper we introduce Web design frameworks as a conceptual approach to maximize reuse in Web applications. We first discuss the need for building abstract and reusable navigational design structures, exe...
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Designing Business Processes in E-commerce Applications
Business processes play an important role in E-commerce Web applications as they form an important part of the B2C domain and dominate the B2B domain. However, E-commerce application modeling and design techni...
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Seamless Personalization of E-commerce Applications
In this paper we present an original approach for personalizing complex Web applications, in particular e-commerce applications. This approach is based on a clear separation of concerns, namely: base applicati...
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Designing Evolvable Location Models for Ubiquitous Applications
In this paper we present an object-oriented approach for building location models in the context of ubiquitous applications. We first motivate our research by discussing which design problems we face while bui...
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A Pattern-Based Approach to Mobile Information Systems Conceptual Architecture
As mobile access to information becomes a common trend in most commercial and corporate information systems, new software engineering challenges arise. While the most visible problems in mobile systems are the...
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Seamless Engineering of Location-Aware Services
In this paper we present a novel approach to design and implement applications that provide location-aware services. We show how a clear separation of design concerns (e.g. applicative, context-specific, etc) ...
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Separation of Structural Concerns in Physical Hypermedia Models
In this paper we propose a modeling and design approach for building physical hypermedia applications, i.e. those mobile applications in which physical and digital objects are related and explored using the hy...
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Designing Volatile Functionality in E-Commerce Web Applications
In this paper we present a flexible design approach and a software framework for integrating dynamic and volatile functionality in Web applications, particularly in e-commerce software. We first motivate our w...
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Context-Aware Services for Physical Hypermedia Applications
In this paper we present an approach for designing and deploying context-aware services in the context of physical hypermedia applications, those applications in which mobile users explore real and digital obj...
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Transparent Interface Composition in Web Applications
In this paper we present an approach for oblivious composition of Web user interfaces, particularly for volatile functionality. Our approach, which is inspired on well-known techniques for advanced separation ...
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Model-Driven Development of Web Applications with UWA, MVC and JavaServer Faces
This paper presents a model-driven approach to the development of web applications based on the Ubiquitous Web Application (UWA) design framework, the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architectural pattern and the ...
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Rethinking Context Models
Since the first context-aware applications were designed, context modelling has played a central role. During the last decade many different approaches were proposed to model context, ranging from ad-hoc model...
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Use of Hypermedia Tools for End-User Development
Software development tools aimed at end-users tend to employ various forms of visual programming because these users find textual programming very difficult to learn. However, visual programming has known scal...
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Client-Side Adaptation: An Approach Based in Reutilization Using Transversal Models
Improving navigability in Web applications is essential for applications success. Our research aims to improve the user experience by applying novel techniques such as concern-sensitive navigation. Concern-sen...
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From Mockups to User Interface Models: An Extensible Model Driven Approach
Sketching web applications with mockup tools is a common practice that improves the process of elicitation and validation of requirements in web applications. However, mockups are used as a “quick and dirty” w...
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An Incremental Approach for Building Accessible and Usable Web Applications
Building accessible Web applications is difficult, moreover considering the fact that they are constantly evolving. To make matters more critical, an application which conforms to the well-known W3C accessibil...
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From Interface Mockups to Web Application Models
The process of modeling and implementing Web applications has been successfully improved by the use of Model-Driven Web Engineering (MDWE) methodologies. However, because of their traditional process models, t...
