Overview of a framework to hypermedia process modeling

Abstract

In this work, we discuss aspects of a framework to support the understanding and the improvement in hypermedia development processes. The framework is built taking into account two modeling approaches and four domain levels. The modeling approaches are called prescriptive and descriptive respectively, and the domain layers are called, namely, enactment, customization, representation, and reuse/knowledge domains. We feed a potential project regarding this framework by applying a mixture of expression and analysis-oriented descriptive process modeling strategy, and expression, analysis and guided-oriented prescriptive process modeling strategy. That is, the actual or desired entities (process, artifact, and resource) are just described, represented, and analyzed in a somewhat formal way. This potentially allows us to understand, communicate, guide and improve different aspects in hypermedia development projects.

Ultimately, we summarize some techniques and mechanisms for prescriptive and descriptive software modeling customized to the hypermedia domain. In addition, we present in-progress researchs and developments.