Conceptualization of Navigational Maps for Web Applications
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چکیده
The characterization of navigational maps for Web applications helps its developers in the process of construction of these applications and it also helps users while performing their browsing. This paper presents the Pipe approach for characterizing navigational maps for Web applications at their conceptualization stage. Although Pipe was originally intended as a hypermedia-oriented notation it has been successfully used for characterizing navigational maps for Web applications. In addition, navigational maps described in terms of the Pipe notation can be easily mapped to UML-Conallen class diagrams at the design stage. This paper presents the characterization of the travel agency’s navigational map using Pipe notation at the conceptualization stage. The paper also demonstrates the mapping of this Pipe navigational map to UML-Conallen class diagrams.
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