Research Area: Web Technology
The emerging Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) paradigm advocates the usage of models as the most important artifacts in the software development process, while artifacts such as documentation and source code can quickly be produced from those models by using automated transformations.
On the other hand, we are witnessing the rising popularity of a particular kind of web application, Content Management Systems (CMS), whose importance for organizational websites and intranets is already acknowledged. Although CMS systems are typically unable to address all the business requirements of an organization by themselves, they can however be used as platforms for more complex web applications that can address those requirements. In fact, some CMS systems are evolving to become the next generation of web application platforms.
This dissertation proposes the creation of an MDE approach for the development of web applications based on CMS systems. This approach is based on the creation of two CMS-oriented languages (which are located at different levels of abstraction, and are used to both quickly model a web application and provide a common ground for the creation of additional CMS-oriented languages), and a mechanism for the processing of models specified using those languages.
Name of the Researcher: Jo ̃ao Paulo Pedro Mendes de Sousa Saraiva
Name of the Supervisor(s): Alberto Manuel Rodrigues da Silva
Year of Completion: 2013
University: Tecnica University
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