To build a correct software product in a Web environment, it is necessary to represent in a precise way the user requirements. This process of user requirements elicitation must generate a Conceptual Schema where all these aspects - including navigation and presentation - must be properly captured. As a consequence, a Conceptual Schema for a Web Application must include in its expressiveness new conceptual primitives specifically designed to specify web characteristics that are not present in the conventional conceptual modeling approaches. These web-oriented conceptual patterns will be introduced in this talk. Furthermore, how to use them in a modern software production process will be shown, using well-known, widely-used notations as UML - properly extended for specification of Web Applications -, and applying the ideas to a practical case of study. Finally, how to guide the process of converting the conceptual patterns into their corresponding final software representations will be analyzed, to show how to go from the problem space to the solution space in a way as automated as possible, providing a MDA-based approach.
Prof. Dr. Oscar Pastor, PhD in 1992, and former researcher in HP Labs, holds the chair of Computation and Information Systems at the Valencia University of Technology (Spain). He is author of over 100 research papers in conference proceedings, journals and books, and he received numerous research grants from public institutions and private industry. His research activities focus on web engineering, object-oriented conceptual modelling, requirements engineering, information systems and model-based software production. He is also leader of a project, undertaken since 1996 by the Valencia University of Technology and CONSOFT S.A., that has originated an advanced Model Driven Development tool. This tool produces a final software product starting from a Conceptual Schema where the system requirements are captured. In particular, Prof. Pastor is responsible of the research team working from the University on the improvement of the underlying framework, focusing on Business Process Modeling, Web Technologies and how to use properly Software and Architectural Patterns to go from the problem space to the solution space in an automated way.
Sprecher: Prof. Dr. Oscar Pastor Wann: Donnerstag, 27. Mai 2004, 15:00 Uhr (s.t.) Wo: HS B, Universität Klagenfurt