A Visual Approach to Internet Applications Development

To allow Internet users to find, collect and manipulate information available on the Web, different solutions have been developed (IEEE 1997) by researchers and software companies which aim at simplifying the interface as much as possible (search engines) or even acting on the users’ behalf (software agents). Nevertheless, there is a range of applications where the overload involved in training an adaptive intelligent system would be unacceptable, while a traditional browsing approach would result in tiresome, time-consuming effort.