EDUCATIONAL PORTAL DEVELOPMENT MODEL FOR IMPLEMENTING DESIGN FOR CHANGE

We analyze the development of educational (EDU) web portals from the perspective of meta-design. Here, we focus on the technical issues of meta-design only and consider design-for-change. Our contribution is a variability model based on the variability analysis, generic portal development processes, sub-processes and their relationships. We analyze the interface design problem in the context of the EDU Portal development and consider the implementation of the proposed model using meta-programming.

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