Adaptation and Reuse in Designing Web Information Systems

  • Authors:
  • Flavius Frasincar;Peter Barna;Geert-Jan Houben;Zoltán Fiala

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ITCC '04 Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC'04) Volume 2 - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

The increasing number of requirements for a Web InformationSystem asks for an engineered process in designingsuch a system. In this paper we focus on two of theserequirements: presentation adaptation based on user preferences/device capabilities and reusability of the differentdesign artifacts. Hera is a model-based design methodologyfor Web Information Systems. Adaptation and reusecan be tackled at different design levels in Hera. We illustrateby means of examples how adaptation and reuse canbe achieved in the conceptual model, the application model,and the presentation model. Based on a static user profile,adaptation is realized by attaching appearance conditionsto model elements. With respect to reusability we do focuson one mechanism that supports it, namely inheritance.