Designing Complex Web Information Systems: Integrating Evolutionary Process Engineering

This book reports on ten years of research on developing an integrated and flexible methodology for modeling complex Web information systems. The book is divided into three sections, with a summary overview for each section. The first section provides background on strengths and weaknesses of existing methodologies for modeling and designing business processes and Web applications, and describes the use of the OWL language for the realization of meta-models. The second section of the book describes two complete Web application process-oriented designs for internal and external users. The third section describes support tools for automatic code generation. Paiano, a member of the IEEE, teaches at the University of Salento, Italy. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)