This book describes the research of the authors over more than a decade on an end-to-end
methodology for the design and development of Web Information Systems (WIS). It covers
syntactics semantics and pragmatics of WIS introduces sophisticated concepts for conceptual
modelling provides integrated foundations for all these concepts and integrates them into the
co-design method for systematic WIS development. WIS i.e. data-intensive information systems
that are realized in a way that arbitrary users can access them via web browsers constitute a
prominent class of information systems for which acceptance by its a priori unknown users in
varying contexts with respect to the presented content the ease of functionality provided and
the attraction of the layout adds novel challenges for modelling design and development. This
book is structured into four parts. Part I Web Information Systems - General Aspects gives a
general introduction to WIS describing the challenges for their development and provides a
characterization by six decisive aspects: intention usage content functionality context and
presentation. Part II High-Level WIS Design - Strategic Analysis and Usage Modelling with
Storyboarding introduces methods for high-level design of WIS covering strategic aspects and
the storyboarding method which is discussed from syntactic semantic and pragmatic
perspectives. Part III Conceptual WIS Design - Rigorous Modelling of Web Information Systems
and their Layout with Web Interaction Types and Screenography continues with conceptual design
of WIS including layout and playout. This introduces the decisive web interaction types the
screenography method and adaptation aspects. The final Part IV Rationale of the Co-Design
Methodology and Systematic Development of Web Information Systems describes the co-design
method for WIS development and its application for the systematic engineering of systems. The
book addresses the research community and at the same time can be used for education of
graduate students and as methodological support for professional WIS developers. For the WIS
research community it provides methods for WIS modelling on all levels of abstraction including
theoretical foundations and inference mechanisms as well as a sophisticated end-to-end
methodology for systematic WIS engineering from requirements elicitation over conceptual
modelling to aspects of implementation layout and playout. For students and professional
developers the book can be used as a whole for educational courses on WIS design and
development as well as for more specific courses on conceptual modelling of WIS WIS
foundations and reasoning co-design and WIS engineering or WIS layout and playout development.
