Customisation for ubiquitous web applications: a comparison of approaches

Kappel, Gerti; Pröll, Birgit; Retschitzegger, Werner; Schwinger, Wieland

doi:10.1504/ijwet.2003.003322

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“…A system which can learn these patterns and identify the transition in temporal context from one to the other is feasible from established research. For an example see [43]. What was clear from this study was that later evening engaged viewing experiences are now utterly divorced from traditional concepts of television schedules or live to air content.…”

Section: Temporal Aspectsmentioning

confidence: 74%

Designing for video: investigating the contextual cues within viewing situations

Mercer

May

Mitchel

2013

Pers Ubiquit Comput

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Section: Temporal Aspectsmentioning

confidence: 74%

Designing for video: investigating the contextual cues within viewing situations

Mercer

May

Mitchel

2013

Pers Ubiquit Comput

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“…Various contextual aspects influence a modeling method's expressiveness with regard to adaptability [13]:…”

Section: Adaptive Web Engineeringmentioning

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Context-Driven Progressive Enhancement of Mobile Web Applications: A Multicriteria Decision-Making Approach

Desruelle

Gielen

2014

The Computer Journal

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Personal computing has become all about mobile and embedded devices. As a result, the adoption rate of smartphones is rapidly increasing and this trend has set a need for mobile applications to be available at anytime, anywhere, and on any device. Nevertheless the obvious advantages of such immersive mobile applications, software developers are increasingly facing the challenges related to device fragmentation. Current application development solutions are insufficiently prepared for handling the enormous variety of software platforms and hardware characteristics covering the mobile eco-system. As a result, maintaining a viable balance between development costs and market coverage has turned out to be a challenging issue when developing mobile applications. This article proposes a context-aware software platform for the development and delivery of self-adaptive mobile applications over the Web. An adaptive application composition approach is introduced, capable of autonomously bypassing context-related fragmentation issues. This goal is achieved by incorporating and validating the concept of finegrained progressive application enhancements based on a multi-criteria decision making strategy.

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“…In a further evaluation but already some time ago, Kappel et al compare the customization modeling capabilities of OOHDM and WebML with respect to supported context, granularity of adaptations, and the degree of customizability [Kappel et al 2001]. …”

Section: Customization Modeling Surveysmentioning

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A survey on web modeling approaches for ubiquitous web applications

Schwinger

Retschitzegger

Schauerhuber

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International Journal of Web Information Systems

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PurposeUbiquitous web applications (UWA) are a new type of web applications which are accessed in various contexts, i.e. through different devices, by users with various interests, at anytime from anyplace around the globe. For such full‐fledged, complex software systems, a methodologically sound engineering approach in terms of model‐driven engineering (MDE) is crucial. Several modeling approaches have already been proposed that capture the ubiquitous nature of web applications, each of them having different origins, pursuing different goals and providing a pantheon of concepts. This paper aims to give an in‐depth comparison of seven modeling approaches supporting the development of UWAs.Design/methodology/approachThis methodology is conducted by applying a detailed set of evaluation criteria and by demonstrating its applicability on basis of an exemplary tourism web application. In particular, five commonly found ubiquitous scenarios are investigated, thus providing initial insight into the modeling concepts of each approach as well as to facilitate their comparability.FindingsThe results gained indicate that many modeling approaches lack a proper MDE foundation in terms of meta‐models and tool support. The proposed modeling mechanisms for ubiquity are often limited, since they neither cover all relevant context factors in an explicit, self‐contained, and extensible way, nor allow for a wide spectrum of extensible adaptation operations. The provided modeling concepts frequently do not allow dealing with all different parts of a web application in terms of its content, hypertext, and presentation levels as well as their structural and behavioral features. Finally, current modeling approaches do not reflect the crosscutting nature of ubiquity but rather intermingle context and adaptation issues with the core parts of a web application, thus hampering maintainability and extensibility.Originality/valueDifferent from other surveys in the area of modeling web applications, this paper specifically considers modeling concepts for their ubiquitous nature, together with an investigation of available support for MDD in a comprehensive way, using a well‐defined as well as fine‐grained catalogue of more than 30 evaluation criteria.

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Customisation for ubiquitous web applications: a comparison of approaches

Cited by 65 publications

References 53 publications

Designing for video: investigating the contextual cues within viewing situations

Designing for video: investigating the contextual cues within viewing situations

Context-Driven Progressive Enhancement of Mobile Web Applications: A Multicriteria Decision-Making Approach

A survey on web modeling approaches for ubiquitous web applications

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