Reconciling Top-Down and Bottom-Up Design Approaches in RMM

The Relationship Management Methodology (RMM) is a well-known hypermedia design methodology. In this paper we provide an extension to it that enhances the design process. We present an iterative process of application design that incorporates the design of the entire application as well as its building blocks called m-slices. 1. Introduction The proliferation of Intranets and Extranets as well as the vast expansion of the World Wide Web (WWW) and electronic commerce [1] indicate the need for a structured hypermedia design methodology that will guide the design, development and maintenance of large multimedia and hypermedia information systems [2] and collaborative systems [3]. The Relationship Management Methodology (RMM) proposed initially in [4] and extended in [5] is a well-known hypermedia design methodology based on the E-R model. RMM has been used to design and develop several applications, including the Hyper-Proceedings of the WWW-6 conference. In this paper we provide an addi..