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CRITON: A Hypermedia Design Tool

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The WWW has turned into a development and run-time environment for large-scale and complex applications. Such sophisticated applications are being deployed in increasing numbers without having been developed according to appropriate methodologies, tools and quality standards. The reason is not only that the hypermedia industry resists to utilize formal methods, but also that these methods and corresponding tools are very few and of dubious standards. The consequence is that the hypermedia applications being developed are of poor functionality and lack qualities such as modifiability, usability and maintainability. Especially the design phase is one of the phases that lack sufficient support from methods and CASE tools. This paper presents CRITON, a cross platform tool, built to support a hypermedia design method within an integrated environment. CRITON manages all three aspects of hypermedia design: conceptual design, navigational design and graphical user interface design, utilizing well-established theories and practices from software as well as hypermedia engineering. It employs these designs to generate a preliminary, exemplary form of the hypermedia application for the purpose of assessing the designs before the implementation phase.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Software Engineering Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, Zografou, Athens, 15780, Greece

    Paris Avgeriou

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, 75 Kallipoleos Str., P.O. Box 20537, Nicosia, CY-1678, Cyprus

    Symeon Retalis

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Avgeriou, P., Retalis, S. CRITON: A Hypermedia Design Tool. Multimed Tools Appl 27, 5–21 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-005-2712-x

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