A UML-based methodology for hypermedia design

  • Authors:

  • Rolf Hennicker;Nora Koch

  • Affiliations:

  • Institute of Computer Science, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, München, Germany;Institute of Computer Science, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, München, Germany and F.A.S.T. Applied Software Technology GmbH, München, Germany

  • Venue:
  • UML'00 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on The unified modeling language: advancing the standard
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We propose a methodology for hypermedia design which is based on a UML profile for the hypermedia domain. Starting with a use case analysis and a conceptual model of the application we first provide guidelines for modeling the navigation space. From the navigation space model we can derive, in a next step, a navigational structure model which shows how to navigate through the navigation space using access elements like indexes, guided tours, queries and menus. Finally, a presentation model is constructed that can be directly implemented by HTML frames. The different models of the design process are represented by using a hypermedia extension of UML. The strength of the presented methodology is given by the fact that most steps can be performed in an automatic way thus providing the basis for a generation mechanism for hypermedia design.