A software architecture for generating hypermedia applications for ad-hoc database output
Gjpm Geert-Jan Houben, Wjm Pim Lemmens · 1999
: This report describes the development of software for the generation of hypermedia (Web) applications for the results of ad-hoc queries to multimedia databases. In [Houben & De Bra 1997] we have proposed a heuristic algorithm for generating navigation structures for multimedia database output, based on ideas from RMM [see Isakowitz et al. 1995]. We have shown that only part of the RMM design methodology can be automated deterministically, and we have provided relevant heuristics and an extension to the query language to allow users to explicitly override the heuristics. In [Houben & De Bra 1999] we have further developed this approach by describing the design of a system for automatic generation of presentations for multimedia database output. In that system hypermedia applications (including both navigation and presentation aspects) are automatically generated combining heuristics from [Houben & De Bra 1997] and explicit directives from the user. This approach is similar...