Modeling Ubiquitous Web Applications - A Comparison of Approaches

Thomas Hofer; Gertrude Kappel; Birgit Pröll; Werner Retschitzegger; Wieland Schwinger

Modeling Ubiquitous Web Applications - A Comparison of Approaches

Thomas Hofer
, Gertrude Kappel
, Birgit Pröll
, Werner Retschitzegger
, Wieland Schwinger

Institute for Application-oriented Knowledge Processing

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Abstract

E-commerce and m-commerce demand for full-fledged, increasingly complex applications which need to offer ubiquitous access in terms of the anytime/anywhere/anymedia paradigma. From a software engineering point of view, the development of such ubiquitous web applications requires proper modeling methods in order to ensure architectural soundness and maintainability. Recently, web modeling methods started recognizing this fact by providing first concepts for dealing with ubiquity. In this paper, two of these modeling methods are compared, identifying their strengths and shortcomings. As a prerequisite, an evaluation framework is introduced, using the notion of customization as the uniform mechanism to enable ubiquity. Customization adapts a web application towards a particular context which reflects the environment the application is running in. To enable a holistic view on the development process of a ubiquitous web application, customization is regarded as a new modeling dimension, influencing all other tasks of ubiquitous web application development.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Third International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications and Services (iiWAS2001)
Pages	163-174
Number of pages	12
Publication status	Published - Sept 2001

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Fields of science

102001 Artificial intelligence
102006 Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW)
102010 Database systems
102014 Information design
102015 Information systems
102016 IT security
102028 Knowledge engineering
102019 Machine learning
102022 Software development
102025 Distributed systems
502007 E-commerce
505002 Data protection
506002 E-government
509018 Knowledge management
202007 Computer integrated manufacturing (CIM)
102033 Data mining
102035 Data science

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