Structuring Guidelines for Web Application Designers - A Meta-model

Anh Do Tuan, Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau, Samira Si-Saïd Cherfi

2016

Abstract

Companies develop and maintain complex web sites. Literature provides them with many guidelines for these tasks. However this knowledge is disseminated in many information sources and difficult to apply. This paper is an attempt to address the following research question: How to structure the existing guidelines helping website designers in order to facilitate their application? The contribution is twofold: i) we propose a meta-model allowing a rich representation of these guidelines, ii) we feed this model with several hundreds of guidelines thanks to a deep extraction and structuration. Future research will consist in enriching the UWE (UML-based Web Engineering) method with this knowledge base leading to a quality based approach.

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Tuan A., Comyn-Wattiau I. and Si-Saïd Cherfi S. (2016). Structuring Guidelines for Web Application Designers - A Meta-model . In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-187-8, pages 327-335. DOI: 10.5220/0005835703270335


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@conference{iceis16,
author={Anh Do Tuan and Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau and Samira Si-Saïd Cherfi},
title={Structuring Guidelines for Web Application Designers - A Meta-model},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2016},
pages={327-335},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005835703270335},
isbn={978-989-758-187-8},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - Structuring Guidelines for Web Application Designers - A Meta-model
SN - 978-989-758-187-8
AU - Tuan A.
AU - Comyn-Wattiau I.
AU - Si-Saïd Cherfi S.
PY - 2016
SP - 327
EP - 335
DO - 10.5220/0005835703270335