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Gustavo Rossi
Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)
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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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E-commerce Site Evaluation: a Case Study
Recent surveys on e-commerce sites confirm the increased use of the Web for shop**. The reasons of these trends have been attributed to different factors such as convenience, saving time, absence of sales pr...
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Components for the Reuse of Activities in Web Applications
In this paper we present a component-based approach for treating activities as first-class citizens in Web applications. We show that there exists a mismatch in the form of a phase lag between the logical acti...
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Combining Meta-level and Logic-Based Constructs in Web Personalization
In this position paper we analyze the problem of Web Applications personalization from a design point of view. We focus on which design constructs are necessary to achieve modular and evolvable personalized We...
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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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Customization Policies Need more than Rule Objects
In this paper we analyze the process of map** business policies into object-oriented software structures. We stress that separation of concerns is a key strategy for obtaining high quality and evolvable impl...
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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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Customizing Business Processes in Web Applications
In this paper we discuss several issues related to the introduction of business processes in the life cycle of Web based E-commerce applications. We first argue that business processes have been so far neglect...
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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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A Structural Computing Model for Dynamic Service-Based Systems
Traditional techniques for Programming in the Large, especially Object- Oriented approaches, have been used for a considerable time and with great success in the implementation of service-based information sys...
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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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From Crosscutting Concerns to Web Systems Models
In this paper we present a novel approach for dealing with crosscuting concerns in Web applications from requirements to design. Our approach allows to clearly decoupling requirements that belong to different ...
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Browsing Semantics in Context-Aware Mobile Hypermedia
Mobile hypermedia applications combine the well-known advantages of the navigational paradigm of the Web with the capabilities of location-aware software. However, there are some subtleties to integrate them s...
