The exponential growth and capillar diffusion of the Web are nurturing a novel generation of
applications, characterized by a direct business-to-customer relationship. The development …

Designing and maintaining Web applications is one of the major challenges for the software
industry of the year 2000. In this paper we present Web Modeling Language (WebML), a …

The popularity of the World-Wide Web (WWW) has made it a prime vehicle for disseminating
information. The relevance of database concepts to the problems of managing and querying …

Information is a valuable resource to an organization. Computer software provides an
efficient means of processing information, and database systems are becoming an …

Existing tools for building and deploying complex Web sites are inadequate for dealing with
the software production process that involves connecting with underlying logic in a unified …

The Semantic Web is intended to enable machine processability of web content and seems
to be a solution for many drawbacks of the current Web. It is based on metadata that …

Extending database-like techniques to semi-structured and Web data sources is becoming a
prominent research field. These data sources are essentially collections of textual …

Web sites are progressively evolving from browsable, read-only information repositories to
Web-based distributed applications. Compared to traditional Web sites, these Web …

This paper describes a methodology for the development of WWW applications and a tool
environment specifically tailored for the methodology. The methodology and the …

A majority of the work on reverse engineering has been done on extracting entity-
relationship and object models from relational databases. There exist only a few approaches …