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A Meta-model Approach to the Management of Hypertexts in Web Information Systems

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Advances in Conceptual Modeling – Challenges and Opportunities (ER 2008)

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Modern Web Information Systems (WIS) are called to manage a huge amount of pieces of information, in a way that is often difficult to share, correlate and maintain. This is mainly due to the fact that the engineering of such systems is often based on proprietary and ad-hoc modeling languages and this makes hard the interoperability between different WISs. In this scenario, an important task of a modern Web application is the development of its navigation model, which provides an hypertextual view of the underlying data. It follows that the interoperability of Web applications relies often on the comparison, integration and exchange of information expressed in terms of hypertext structures. In this paper, we present a metamodel approach to the representation and development of navigational models of Web Information Systems supporting the definition of different models and the translations from one model to another. To this aim, we present a General Hypertext Model that covers a variety of Hypertext modeling methods and show how this metamodel can be profitably used in different application WIS scenarios.

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica e Automazione, Universitá Roma Tre, Rome, Italy

    Roberto De Virgilio & Riccardo Torlone

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  1. College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, USA

    Il-Yeol Song

  2. Dep. of Information Technologies & Systems - Escuela Superior de Informática, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Alarcos Research Group- Institute of Information Technologies & Systems, Ciudad Real, Spain

    Mario Piattini

  3. School of Engineering and Information Technology, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Vic, 3125, Australia

    Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen

  4. Clausthal University of Technology, Julius-Albert-Str. 4, 38678, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany

    Sven Hartmann

  5. Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, P.O. Box, Italy

    Fabio Grandi

  6. Department of Software and Computing Systems, University of Alicante, Spain

    Juan Trujillo

  7. Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Fosswinckelsgate 6, 5007, Bergen, Norway

    Andreas L. Opdahl

  8. Istituto di Ricerche sulla Popolazione e Politiche Sociali, CNR, Via Nizza 128, 00198, Roma, Italy

    Fernando Ferri  & Patrizia Grifoni  & 

  9. IRPPS-CNR, Rome, Italy

    Maria Chiara Caschera

  10. Universit Paris1 Panthon Sorbonne, CRI, 90 Rue de Tolbiac, 75013, Paris

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  12. Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 90 rue de Tolbiac, 75013, Paris

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  13. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

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  17. IMRU-FUNDP, University of Namur, Namur, Belgium

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De Virgilio, R., Torlone, R. (2008). A Meta-model Approach to the Management of Hypertexts in Web Information Systems. In: Song, IY., et al. Advances in Conceptual Modeling – Challenges and Opportunities. ER 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5232. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87991-6_49

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