Paper Info
Title
A Document-Oriented Paradigm for the Construction of Content-Intensive Applications
Abstract
In this paper we describe our work on the formulation of a document-oriented paradigm for improving the construction and maintenance of content-intensive applications (i.e. applications that make intensive use of the information provided by the experts in a given domain: the contents). According to this paradigm, the development of a content-intensive application must be the result of close collaboration between two kinds of actors: domain experts and developers. The goal of this collaboration is the authoring of (i) a set of documents describing the most relevant aspects of the application (i.e. the contents and other relevant customizable features); (ii) a grammar describing a domain-specific markup language that will be used to make the structure and the data in these documents explicit and (iii) a suitable processor for this language. The final running application will be automatically produced by processing the marked documents with this processor. The use of this paradigm in the development of content-intensive applications can increase the initial cost of application production, but in the long run it can substantially improve maintenance and portability, and promote information and software reuse as well. We have successfully applied this paradigm to the development of educational and hypermedia applications, and knowledge-based systems. From these experiences, we have found that the feasibility of the paradigm depends to a great extent on having mechanisms that enable the incremental definition of the markup languages and the incremental construction of their processors. This has led us to the formulation of a document-oriented approach for the development of content-intensive applications tightly coupled with these principles of incremental formulation and operationalization of domain-specific markup languages.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1093/comjnl/bxl008
Comput. J.
Keywords
Field
DocType
close collaboration,markup language,content-intensive application,hypermedia application,domain-specific markup language,incremental definition,incremental formulation,application production,content-intensive applications,incremental construction,document-oriented paradigm,software maintenance,software evolution,knowledge based system,xml
XML,Collaborative Application Markup Language,Computer science,Hypermedia,Theoretical computer science,Software portability,Software maintenance,Software evolution,RuleML,Markup language
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
49
5
0010-4620
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
18
2.13
40
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
José Luis Sierra144948.96
Alfredo Fernandez-Valmayor222128.42
Baltasar Fernández-Manjón372887.00