Customization of Web applications through an intelligent environment exploiting logical interface descriptions

Macías, José A.; Paternò, Fabio

doi:10.1016/j.intcom.2007.07.007

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“…In this sense, PBE and MBUI techniques can be combined together in order to relieve the user from having to deal with web-based languages and complex non-end-user-intended development environments. Certainly, this implies to reduce sometimes the expressiveness of MBUI approach, since users do not need to manipulate declarative specifications of the interface, but to dedicate all their effort to easily carry out their expectation in software customization [17]. In general terms, the user should not be aware of the interface's internal specification processes.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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“…To this end, it accepts a reduction in the expressiveness of the MBUI approach in order that users do not have to manipulate declarative specifications for the interface [17]. For a successful trade-off between expressiveness and complexity, the system must provide a low-level abstract design environment, such as a WYSIWYG interface that provides end-users with a real representation of the interface.…”

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Intelligent Assistance in Authoring Dynamically Generated Web Interfaces

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2008

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Intelligent Assistance in Authoring Dynamically Generated Web Interfaces

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2008

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“…The challenge, then, is to come up with an emerging web end-user component model [18] that covers the functionalities of a well-known set of existing tools, exploits their strengths and, whenever possible, reduces their weaknesses, encouraging EUPs to create and/or customize their own software [19]. This paper studies a representative set of existing tools, which were selected as being the most commonly used and successful tools in recent years, analyses the component models underlying the RIAs created using each tool and defines and formalizes in description logic a component model that subsumes the RIA models by merging their functionalities and strengths and incorporating EUD (enduser development) success factors.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Web-centred end-user component modelling

Lizcano

Alonso

Soriano

et al. 2016

Future Generation Computer Systems

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A B S T R A C TThis paper formally defines a web component model enabling end-user programmers to build component-based rich internet applications (RIAs) that are tailored to meet their particular needs. It is the product of a series of previously published papers. The formal definition in description logic verifies that the model is consistent and subsumes currently existing models. We demonstrate experimentally that it is more effective than the others.Current tools propose very disparate web component models, which are based on the appropriate invocation of service backends, overlooking user needs in order to exploit these services and resources in a friendly manner. We have proposed a web model based on a detailed study of existing tools, their pros and cons, limitations and key success factors that have enabled other web end-user development (WEUD) solutions to help end-user programmers to build software to support their needs. In this paper we have verified that the proposed model subsumes and is instantiated by the models of the other existing tools that we analysed, coming a step closer to the standardization of end-user centred RIAs and development environments. We have implemented a development tool, called EzWeb, to produce RIAs that implement the proposed model. This tool enables users to develop their application following the model's component structure based on end-user programming success factors. We report a statistical experiment in which users develop increasingly complex web software using the EzWeb tool generating RIAs that conform to the proposed component model, and other WEUD tools generating RIAs that conform to other models. This experiment confirms the applicability of the proposed model and demonstrates that more end-user programmers (EUPs) (users concerned with programming primarily for personal rather public use) successfully develop web solutions for complex problems using the EzWeb tool that implements the model, which is more efficient than existing tools that implement other models.

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“…The challenge, then, is to come up with a system that is capable of adapting the components of these tools to a universal web component catalogue including parts of as many tools as possible and giving users access to a comprehensive component ecosystem [27]. As far as we know, there is no such system to date.…”

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Automated end user-centred adaptation of web components through automated description logic-based reasoning

Lizcano

Alonso

Soriano

et al. 2015

Information and Software Technology

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Context: This paper addresses one of the major end-user development (EUD) challenges, namely, how to pack today's EUD support tools with composable elements. This would give end users better access to more components which they can use to build a solution tailored to their own needs. The success of later end-user software engineering (EUSE) activities largely depends on how many components each tool has and how adaptable components are to multiple problem domains. Objective: A system for automatically adapting heterogeneous components to a common development environment would offer a sizeable saving of time and resources within the EUD support tool construc-tion process. This paper presents an automated adaptation system for transforming EUD components to a standard format. Method: This system is based on the use of description logic. Based on a generic UML2 data model, this description logic is able to check whether an enduser component can be transformed to this modelling language through subsumption or as an instance of the UML2 model. Besides it automatically finds a con-sistent, non-ambiguous and finite set of XSLT mappings to automatically prepare data in order to leverage the component as part of a tool that conforms to the target UML2 component model. Results: The proposed system has been successfully applied to components from four prominent EUD tools. These components were automatically converted to a standard format. In order to validate the pro-posed system, rich internet applications (RIA) used as an operational support system for operators at a large services company were developed using automatically adapted standard format components. These RIAs would be impossible to develop using each EUD tool separately. Conclusion: The positive results of applying our system for automatically adapting components from cur-rent tool catalogues are indicative of the system's effectiveness. Use of this system could foster the growth of web EUD component catalogues, leveraging a vast ecosystem of user-centred SaaS to further current EUSE trends.

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Customization of Web applications through an intelligent environment exploiting logical interface descriptions

Cited by 27 publications

References 13 publications

Intelligent Assistance in Authoring Dynamically Generated Web Interfaces

Intelligent Assistance in Authoring Dynamically Generated Web Interfaces

Web-centred end-user component modelling

Automated end user-centred adaptation of web components through automated description logic-based reasoning

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