Data-Driven, One-To-One Web Site Generation for Data-Intensive Applications

A data-driven approach can be fruitfully used in the speci cation and automatic generation of data-intensive Web applications, i.e., applications which make large amounts of data available on the Web. We present a multi-level ture based on orthogonal abstractions for the de nition of the structure, derivation, navigation, composition, and presentation of Web sites; then we show how these ingredients are used in Torii, a tool environment for the speci cation and automatic generation of Web sites, currently developed in the context of a large Esprit project. By means of design tools, speci cations are collected in a design repository, which is next used for Web page generation. This dynamic, data-centered approach opens up opportunities for personalizations: each user can be mapped to an individual hypertextual view of the Web site called site view, and business rules may be used to change site views, both statically and dynamically. We argue that personalization of Web access also c...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1999
• Where: VLDB
• Authors: Stefano Ceri, Piero Fraternali, Stefano Paraboschi
• Keywords: Data-driven Approach, Database, Speci Cations, VLDB 1999, Web Site