Web Engineering: Principles and Techniques

As most organizations have expanded traditional business space into web-based environments, a more complete and thorough understanding of Web Engineering is becoming vital for organizations. However, the definition of Web Engineering is growing more and more blurred. Although based primarily on MIS and computer science areas, Web Engineering covers a wide range of disciplines, thus making it difficult to gain an understanding of the field. Web Engineering: Principles and Techniques provides clarity to this often muddied issue. Covering a wide range of topics such as: basic perspectives on Web Engineering, development methodologies for Web applications, Web metrics and quality models, Web resource management techniques and standards, maintenance and evolution methods for Web applications, and Web intelligence techniques and models this book provides the necessary tools vital for organizations to utilize the full potential of Web Engineering. Essential for both researchers and practitioners, Web Engineering: Principles and Techniques covers a wide range of topics vital to strengthening professional insights and capabilities within the field of Web Engineering.

The 15 papers in this collection address the activities that support the complex lifecycle of large web applications and web projects, such as the maintenance process, quality assessment, web intelligence, and web resource management. The international ensemble of contributors propose a relationship analysis technique for designing navigational links, architectural metrics for internet businesses, an extensible rule markup language (XRML), and a customer analysis-based improvement methodology. Other topics include the web engineering resources portal (WEP), ontology-supported web content management, web cost estimation, and a web mining application for predicting interest rates. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR