Web Engineering: a New Discipline for Development of Web-Based Systems

Murugesan, San; Deshpande, Yogesh; Hansen, Steve; Ginige, Athula

doi:10.1007/3-540-45144-7_2

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“…However, many authors assert that multimedia and Web-based information systems are fundamentally different from "traditional" information systems [9,37,45], and that these "traditional" methods and techniques are therefore not well suited to multimedia and Web-based systems development [33,36,37]. Murugesan et al [35] have spoken of a pressing need for "approaches and new methods and tools for development, deployment and evaluation of Webbased systems and applications".…”

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A comparison of ‘traditional’ and multimedia information systems development practices

Barry

Lang

2003

Information and Software Technology

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As multimedia information systems begin to infiltrate organizations, there arises a need to capture and disseminate knowledge about how to develop them. Little is thus far known about the realities of multimedia systems development practice, or about how the development of multimedia systems compares to that of "traditional" information systems. Herein are discussed the findings of a survey of multimedia developers in Ireland. Practitioners generally agree that systematic approaches are desirable in order to beneficially add structure to development processes, but they are predominantly using their own in-house methods rather than those prescribed in the literature.

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A comparison of ‘traditional’ and multimedia information systems development practices

Barry

Lang

2003

Information and Software Technology

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“…To evaluate the proposed framework, it is useful to use both qualitative and quantitative criteria to verify whether the system design successfully meets users' needs and to evaluate how well it performs under different conditions [80]. In this section, we will discuss qualitative criteria.…”

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A Volunteered Geographic Information Framework to Enable Bottom-Up Disaster Management Platforms

Poorazizi

Hunter

Steiniger

2015

IJGI

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Recent disasters, such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, have drawn attention to the potential role of citizens as active information producers. By using location-aware devices such as smartphones to collect geographic information in the form of geo-tagged text, photos, or videos, and sharing this information through online social media, such as Twitter, citizens create Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI). To effectively use this information for disaster management, we developed a VGI framework for the discovery of VGI. This framework consists of four components: (i) a VGI brokering module to provide a standard service interface to retrieve VGI from multiple resources based on spatial, temporal, and semantic parameters; (ii) a VGI quality control component, which employs semantic filtering and cross-referencing techniques to evaluate VGI; (iii) a VGI publisher module, which uses a service-based delivery mechanism to disseminate VGI, and (iv) a VGI discovery component to locate, browse, and query metadata about available VGI datasets. In a case study we employed a FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) strategy, open standards/specifications, and free/open data to show the utility of the framework. We demonstrate that the framework can facilitate data discovery for disaster management. The addition of quality metrics and a single aggregated source of relevant crisis VGI will allow OPEN ACCESS ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2015, 4 1390 users to make informed policy choices that could save lives, meet basic humanitarian needs earlier, and perhaps limit environmental and economic damage.

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“…The WWW needs these benefits as well, especially as the industry matures and continues on its exponential growth path. Applying software configuration management concepts, principles and approaches to web development has been identified as an open research topic for the configuration management area and web engineering [39,40] as well as the e-learning technology field [41]. Our approach addresses this gap and combines ideas stemming from the software engineering (evolutionary development), the hypermedia modelling (the object-oriented paradigm) and the learning technology fields.…”

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An approach for managing the evolution of web-based educational applications

Psaromiligkos

Retalis

2004

IJWET

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Abstract:The management of the infrastructure and content of the World Wide Web is a growing problem for the development of web-based educational applications (WbEA) and is hidden beneath the tremendous benefits of the web. Moreover, such systems undergo more frequent and quite extensive changes in their development and operational period because the client's perception (either the learner, the teacher or institutional organisation) of the complete end product is a 'moving target'. So, there is a need for a disciplined approach to managing the evolution of web-based educational applications. Such a disciplined approach as applied throughout the software engineering process is called software configuration management (SCM). This paper begins a discussion of how the development of web-based educational applications could benefit from SCM techniques and tools and proposes a model for the management of the evolution of such systems. The model couples the development and evolution process of WbEA configurations into one framework, which seems promising for the implementation of a configuration management process. Also, the model focuses on the development of the web-based educational content, defining the configurations of the items involved in the underlying process. Finally, an example is given to demonstrate the benefits of the use of this approach.Keywords: web-based educational applications; software configuration management; version control; learning technology systems; e-learning; learning resources; learning management systems; instructional design; evaluation.Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Psaromiligkos, Y. An approach for managing the evolution of web-based 149Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece. His research interests are in web engineering and software configuration management, web-based learning environments, evaluation methodologies for web-based systems, object-oriented programming and modelling. He is the author of several papers and serves on the editorial board of international journals.Dr. Symeon Retalis is an Associate Professor at the Department of Technology Education & Digital Systems, University of Piraeus. He holds a diploma in electrical and computer engineering from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Studies, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, an MSc in information technology-knowledge based systems from the Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and a PhD from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece. His research interests lie in the development of web-based learning systems, the design of adaptive hypermedia systems, web engineering and human computer interaction. He is the author of several papers, serves in the editorial board of international journals and participates to special interest groups on web engineering.

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Web Engineering: a New Discipline for Development of Web-Based Systems

Cited by 125 publications

References 13 publications

A comparison of ‘traditional’ and multimedia information systems development practices

A comparison of ‘traditional’ and multimedia information systems development practices

A Volunteered Geographic Information Framework to Enable Bottom-Up Disaster Management Platforms

An approach for managing the evolution of web-based educational applications

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