Building reactive web applications

ABSTRACT

The Adaptive Web is a new research area addressing the personalization of the Web experience for each user. In this paper we propose a new high-level model for the specification of Web applications that take into account the manner users interact with the application for supplying appropriate contents or gathering profile data. We therefore consider entire processes (rather than single properties) as smallest information units, allowing for automatic restructuring of application components. For this purpose, a high-level Event-Condition-Action (ECA) paradigm is proposed, which enables capturing arbitrary (and timed) clicking behaviors.

REFERENCES

• 1: Stefano Ceri , Piero Fraternali , Aldo Bongio , Marco Brambilla , Sara Comai , Maristella Matera, Designing Data-Intensive Web Applications, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., San Francisco, CA, 2002
• 2: Ceri, S., Daniel, F., Matera, M.: Extending webml for modeling multi-channel context-aware web applications. In: Proceedings of Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering Workshops (WISEW'03), Rome, Italy, December 12-13, 2003, IEEE Press (2003) 225--233
• 3: Armani, J., Ceri, S., Demaldè, V.: Modeling of user's behaviors in web applications: a model and a case study. Technical report, Institute of Communication Technologies, Università della Svizzera italiana (2004)

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.4 Hypertext/Hypermedia
          Subjects: Architectures

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.4 Hypertext/Hypermedia
          Subjects: User issues; Navigation

General Terms:
Design, Languages, Theory

Keywords:
adaptive web, design method, eca rule, user modeling