Modeling Web navigation by statechart

There is a trend of increasing size of Web sites and increasing complexity of Web pages by dynamic content in recent years. Currently available Web navigation modeling tools are unable to cope with the need of modeling these contemporary Web sites, especially those with dynamic content. This need is analyzed in this paper and a Web navigation model based on the statechart is proposed to meet the requirements. The model will serve as a tool for modeling and analyzing navigation of complex and dynamic Web sites.

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