A systematic approach for configuring web-based information systems

Distributed and Parallel Databases

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 267-290

  Nikolaidou, M ^a   Anagnostopoulos, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Resource allocation; UML specification; Web based application modeling; Web based system configuration

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MIDDLEWARE; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; THROUGHPUT; WORLD WIDE WEB;

UML SPECIFICATION; WEB-BASED APPLICATION MODELING; WEB-BASED SYSTEM CONFIGURATION;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 18144386597     PISSN: 09268782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10619-005-6832-0     Document Type: Article

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