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ISBN 978-3-540-92200-1

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Engineering Web Applications
by Sven Casteleyn, Florian Daniel, Peter Dolog, Maristella Matera

Eventually, in July 2009 we finalized our book entitled "Engineering Web Applications" and published by Springer, an achievement we are particularly proud of. The book is a monograph on the state of the art and on future trends in Web Engineering research and is targeted at students, teachers, and researchers. It tooks us quite a while to agree on all topics and on how to present them, but in the end we could manage to assemble a book that I think is worth having a look at.

The authors discuss these challenges in the context of well-established engineering processes, covering the whole product lifecycle from requirements engineering through design and implementation to deployment and maintenance. They stress the importance of models in Web application development, and they compare well-known Web-specific development processes like WebML, WSDM and OOHDM to traditional software development approaches like the waterfall model and the spiral model. Important problem areas inherent to the Web, like localization, personalization, accessibility, and usage analysis, are dealt with in detail, and a final chapter provides both a description of and an outlook on recent Semantic Web and Web 2.0 developments.

Overall, their book delivers a comprehensive presentation of the state-of-the-art in Web application development and thus forms an ideal basis for academic or industrial courses in this or related areas. It is equally suitable for self-study by researchers or advanced professionals who require an overview on how to use up-to-date Web technologies.

ISBN 978-3639113938

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This book is actually more a publishing experiment than an book that has been written with the intention of being sold to the public. It's basically my PhD thesis in book form. The experiment is the free, digital publication with VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, which has turned out to be a very smooth and fast process. If you are interested in the book, you can of course buy it, for instance, via Amazon or other book stores, but you can also download the thesis (for free) from my web site :-)

Cover text. This book describes a methodological, model-driven approach to context-awareness and adaptivity in the field of Web Engineering and is based on the dissertation "Model-Driven Design of Context-Aware Web Applications" by the author. The described modeling approach is one of the first attempts to enlarge the applicability of adaptive application features in the Web from so-called "adaptive hypermedia systems" to "context-aware Web applications". While the former typically are based on a user model that is dynamically updated based on the observation of the user's navigation actions, the latter are based on a more complex context model and active, context-triggered application features. The research described in this book is applied in the context of WebML (the Web Modeling Language), yet its contribution is general in nature and can be ported to other modeling languages as well.

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