The technology that integrates various types of Web contents to build a new Web application through end-user programming is widely used nowadays. However, the Web contents do not have a uniform interface for accessing the data and computation. Most of the general Web users access information on the Web through applications until now. Hence, designing a uniform and °exible programmatic interface...

As personalization and device independence become prominent issues in Web development, tools to adapt existing Web Information Systems (WISs) are required. Still, current development approaches lack support for adding adaptation to existing WISs. This paper presents the Generic Adaptation Component (GAC), a transcoding tool for making Web applications adaptable and adaptive. It can be seamlessl...

Multimedia content today can be considered as the composition of media elements into an interactive multimedia presentation. Personalization of such multimedia content means that the content reflects the users’s context, their specific background and interest as well as the heterogeneous infrastructure to which the content is delivered and in which it is presented. To achieve personalized multi...

Nowadays web development has been expanded greatly, not only for ordinary reasons, but also for enterprise and other important purposes. So it’s obvious that there would be some challenges and problems if you want to develop important applications such as an automation system on the web. Some of the problems that I’ve encountered myself as a software developer group manager are source code safe...

Libre (free, open source) software forges (sites hosting the development infrastructure for a collection of projects) have been stable in architecture, services and concept since they become popular during the late 1990s. During this time several problems that cannot be solved without dramatic design changes have become evident. To overeóme them, we propose a new concept, the "networked forge",...

Since the mid 90s, we have been studying Web development and maintenance at Durham. One aspect of the research has been concerned with characterizing the evolution of Web sites over time. Another has been concerned with determining appropriate process models of Web development and maintenance. Overlaying this research has been work on Web metrics: firstly to evaluate web application quality, se...

Currently, one of the important focal points of the evolution of the World Wide Web is the semantic web: a web in which the semantics of the available content and functionality is made explicit. Web Design Methods, originally aimed at offering the designer a well-structured, systematic approach to web design, now face new opportunities and challenges: on one hand, semantic web technology can be...

Web application accessibility requires the enforcement of a set of rules on the content written or generated with the help of Web Development Environments. W3C Consortium’s Web Accessibility Initiative is the most significant normative effort in this direction, and provides an evolving corpus of accessibility recommendations for HTML and, in the future, for other Web languages. In this paper, w...

Development of commercial web systems is laborious, lengthy and costly. This is partly due to the fact that the methods of their development can hardly cope with the complexity of provided services. Such services may need to be distributed and collaborative, require sophisticated software architecture, be rich in form, content and interactivity, and have a wide range of potentially casual users...

Mobile devices are different from desktop based systems in terms of particular execution environment, limited resources, small size and high mobility requirement. Various agile based methodologies are developed for mobile applications such as Mobile-D, Scrum, and MASAM etc. These methodologies are used in building mobile apps. Some of web engineering models or methodologies such as WebE, OOHDM ...