Context-Aware Web Applications: The Model-Driven Way
Florian Daniel · 2010
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 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.