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In the forthcoming years, two factors will jeopardize the deployment of Web applications: supporting multi-device outputs and one-to-one personalization. These two factors will lead to an explosion of solutions, to be developed, maintained, and kept consistent; meanwhile, Web hosting companies will be subject to growing service demands and will be lacking the technical man-power required to master them. With these premises, the strength of the W3I31 tool suite is to propose a model-driven approach to Web site design. Such an approach is based on WebML, a high-level language for specifying the structure of the content of aWeb application and the organization and presentation of such a content in a Web site. In this paper, after a brief presentation of WebML, we concentrate on the W3I3 tool architecture, shown at work on case-study based on the popular site http://www.softseek.com.
W3I3 (Web-Based Intelligent Information Infrastructures) is a project funded by the EC, involving four companies and one Academic Institution (Politecnico di Milano) from four European countries
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Bonifati, A., Ceri, S., Fraternali, P., Maurino, A. (2000). Building Multi-device, Content-Centric Applications Using WebML and the W3I3 Tool Suite. In: Liddle, S.W., Mayr, H.C., Thalheim, B. (eds) Conceptual Modeling for E-Business and the Web. ER 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1921. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45394-6_7
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