Mashing Up Context-Aware Web Applications: A Component-Based Development Approach

2008 ◽  
pp. 250-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Daniel ◽  
Maristella Matera
Keyword(s):  
Web Applications ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Component Based Development ◽  
Development Approach

Context-Aware Applications for the Web

2011 ◽  
pp. 417-440
Author(s):  
Florian Daniel
Keyword(s):  
Context Awareness ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
User Profile ◽  
Expressive Power ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Web Engineering ◽  
Runtime Adaptation ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Context Data ◽  
Development Approach

Adaptivity (the runtime adaptation to user profile data) and context-awareness (the runtime adaptation to generic context data) have been gaining momentum in the field of Web engineering over the last years, especially in response to the ever growing demand for highly personalized services and applications coming from end users. Developing context-aware and adaptive Web applications requires addressing a few design concerns that are proper of such kind of applications and independent of the chosen modeling paradigm or programming language. In this chapter we characterize the design of context-aware Web applications, the authors describe a conceptual, model-driven development approach, and they show how the peculiarities of context-awareness require augmenting the expressive power of conceptual models in order to be able to express adaptive application behaviors.

Context-Aware Applications for the Web

2010 ◽  
pp. 59-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Daniel
Keyword(s):  
Context Awareness ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
User Profile ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Web Engineering ◽  
Runtime Adaptation ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Personalized Services ◽  
Context Data ◽  
Development Approach

Adaptivity (the runtime adaptation to user profile data) and context-awareness (the runtime adaptation to generic context data) have been gaining momentum in the field of Web engineering over the last years, especially in response to the ever growing demand for highly personalized services and applications coming from end users. Developing context-aware and adaptive Web applications requires addressing a few design concerns that are proper of such kind of applications and independent of the chosen modeling paradigm or programming language. In this chapter we characterize the design of context-aware Web applications, the authors describe a conceptual, model-driven development approach, and they show how the peculiarities of context-awareness require augmenting the expressivepower of conceptual models in order to be able to express adaptive application behaviors.

Model-driven development of composite context-aware web applications

2009 ◽  
Vol 51 (8) ◽  
pp. 1244-1260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgia M. Kapitsaki ◽  
Dimitrios A. Kateros ◽  
George N. Prezerakos ◽  
Iakovos S. Venieris
Keyword(s):  
Web Applications ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Model Driven Development ◽  
Model Driven

scholarly journals An End User Development Approach for Mobile Web Augmentation

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela Bosetti ◽  
Sergio Firmenich ◽  
Silvia E. Gordillo ◽  
Gustavo Rossi ◽  
Marco Winckler
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
End Users ◽  
Web Browser ◽  
Mobile Web ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Development Approach ◽  
The Web ◽  
Web Augmentation

The trend towards mobile devices usage has made it possible for the Web to be conceived not only as an information space but also as a ubiquitous platform where users perform all kinds of tasks. In some cases, users access the Web with native mobile applications developed for well-known sites, such as, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. These native applications might offer further (e.g., location-based) functionalities to their users in comparison with their corresponding Web sites because they were developed with mobile features in mind. However, many Web applications have no native counterpart and users access them using a mobile Web browser. Although the access to context information is not a complex issue nowadays, not all Web applications adapt themselves according to it or diversely improve the user experience by listening to a wide range of sensors. At some point, users might want to add mobile features to these Web sites, even if those features were not originally supported. In this paper, we present a novel approach to allow end users to augment their preferred Web sites with mobile features.We support our claims by presenting a framework for mobile Web augmentation, an authoring tool, and an evaluation with 21 end users.

Model-driven development of context-aware Web applications

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Ceri ◽  
Florian Daniel ◽  
Maristella Matera ◽  
Federico M. Facca
Keyword(s):  
Web Applications ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Model Driven Development ◽  
Model Driven

scholarly journals RepCom: A Customisable Report Generator Component System using XML-driven Component-based Development Approach

10.28945/2597 ◽  
2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leong Chee Hoong ◽  
Lee Sai Peck
Keyword(s):  
Heterogeneous Database ◽  
Application Development ◽  
Report Generation ◽  
Component System ◽  
Component Based Development ◽  
Internet Browser ◽  
Database Models ◽  
Enterprise Level ◽  
Development Approach ◽  
Good Report

It is undeniable that report generation is one of the most important tasks in many companies regardless of the size of the company. A good report generation mechanism can increase a company’s productivity in terms of effort and time. This is more obvious in some startup companies, which normally use some in-house report generators. Application development could be complex and thus software developers might require substantial efforts in maintaining application program code. In addition, most of the report generators use a different kind of format to store the report model. An application is no longer considered an enterprise-level product if XML is not being used elsewhere. This paper introduces a XML-driven and Component-based development approach to report generation with the purpose of promoting portability, flexibility and genericity. In this approach, report layout is specified using user-defined XML elements together with queries that retrieve data from different databases. A report is output as an HTML document, which can be viewed using an Internet browser. This paper presents the approach using an example and discusses the usage of the XML-driven report schema and how the proposed reusable report engine of a customisable report generator component system works to output an HTML report format. The customisable report generator component system is implemented to support heterogeneous database models.

A Semantic Web-Based Approach for Context-Aware User Query Formulation and Information Retrieval

2010 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Huu Hoang Hanh ◽  
Manh Nguyen Tho ◽  
Min Tjoa A.
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Data Storage ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Query Process ◽  
User Query ◽  
Query Engine ◽  
System Data

Formulating unambiguous queries in the Semantic Web applications is a challenging task for users. This article presents a new approach in guiding users to formulate clear requests based on their common nature of querying for information. The approach known as the front-end ap proach gives users an overview about the system data through a vir tual data component which stores the extracted metadata of the data storage sources in the form of an ontology. This approach reduces the ambiguities in users’ requests at a very early stage and allows the query process to effectively perform in fulfilling users’ demands in a context-aware manner. Furthermore, the approach provides a powerful query engine, called context-aware query ing, that recommends the appropriate query patterns according to the user’s querying context.

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