Design and development of web information systems

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This book presents over a decade of research on an end-to-end methodology for designing and developing Web Information Systems (WIS). It explores the syntactics, semantics, and pragmatics of WIS, introduces advanced concepts for conceptual modeling, and integrates these into a co-design method for systematic development. WIS are data-intensive systems accessible via web browsers, facing unique challenges regarding user acceptance, content presentation, functionality, and layout. The book is divided into four parts. Part I offers a general introduction to WIS, outlining development challenges and characterizing them through six key aspects: intention, usage, content, functionality, context, and presentation. Part II focuses on high-level design, discussing strategic analysis and the storyboarding method from various perspectives. Part III delves into conceptual design, covering layout and playout, introducing web interaction types and the screenography method. Finally, Part IV describes the co-design methodology and its application in systematic WIS engineering. Targeting the research community, the book provides methods for WIS modeling at all abstraction levels, along with a comprehensive methodology for systematic engineering. It also serves as an educational resource for graduate students and professional developers, applicable for courses on WIS design, conceptual modeling, co-design, and layout development.