Chimera

Abstract

Emerging software development environments are characterized by heterogeneity: they are composed of diverse object stores, user interfaces, and tools. This paper presents an approach for providing hypermedia services in this heterogeneous setting. Central notions of the approach include the following: anchors are established with respect to interactive views of objects, rather than the objects themselves; composable, n-ary links can be established between anchors on different views of objects which may be stored in distinct object bases; viewers may be implemented in different programming languages; and, hypermedia services are provided to multiple, concurrently active, viewers. The paper describes the approach, supporting architecture, and lessons learned. Related work in the areas of supporting heterogeneity and hypermedia data modeling is discussed. The system has been employed in a variety of contexts including research, development, and education.

Multilayer Superimposed Information for Collaborative Annotation in Wikis

“…Open hypermedia systems such as Microcosm [11] and Chimera [4] permit to extend documents with annotations and hyperlinks. Open hypertext could be a solution to add annotations to a wiki page.…”

An Inquiry-led Personalised Navigation System (IPNS) using multi-dimensional linkbases

“…OH research has grown out of work on the construction of hypermedia across different types of media [28], the provision of conventional link functionality [26], the creation of hypertext across heterogeneous environments [1], and work on distributed hypermedia [2].…”

Symphony: view-driven software architecture reconstruction

“…In this paper we have presented Symphony, a software architecture reconstruction process that: (1) incorporates the state of the practice, where reconstruction is problem-driven and uses a rich set of architecture views; (2) provides guidance for performing reconstruction, including pointers to applicable technology; (3) allows specific reconstructions to be systematically compared; and (4) allows reconstruction approaches to be systematically compared.…”

“…These cross-references are created as part of Symphony's Knowledge Inference in the form of the maps and stored so that the connection among views is made explicit. The crossreferences may be implemented and inserted into the views by available frameworks [1,7]. Multiple views occured in all case studies (in the Compiler case, the mapping and the dependencies propagated from the source to the target entities were also visualized).…”

“…1 Analysts from Forrester research have estimated that migrating to "Basel II" will cost banks such as ING or Deutsche Bank approximately 115 million Euros. 60% of these costs concern changes to the bank's information systems.…”