Web-Wide Application Customization: The Case of Mashups

Hagemann S, Vossen G


Abstract
Application development of is commonly a balancing of interests, as the question of what should actually be implemented is answered differently by different stakeholders. This paper considers mashups, which are a way of allowing an application to grow beyond the capabilities of the original developers. First, it introduces several approaches to integrate mashups into the services, or Web pages, that they are based upon. These approaches commonly implement ways to determine which mashups are potentially relevant for display in a certain Web page context. One approach, ActiveTags, enables users to create reliable mashups based on tags, which effectively, leads to customized views of Web pages with tagged content. A scenario that demonstrates the potential benefits of this approach is presented. Second, a formalization of the approaches is presented which uses a relational analog to show their commonalities. The abstraction from implementation specifics opens the range of vision for fundamental capabilities and gives a clear picture of future work.



Publication type
Working paper

Peer reviewed
No

Publication status
Published

Year
2010

Journal
Working Papers of the European Research Center for Information Systems

Editor
Becker J, Backhaus K, Grob HL, Hoeren T, Klein S, Kuchen H, Müller-Funk U, Vossen G

Volume
8

Title of series
ERCIS Working Papers

Publisher
ERCIS - European Research Center for Information Systems

Place
Münster

Language
English

ISSN
1614-7448

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