Generic UIs for Requesting Complex Products Within Distributed Market Spaces in the Internet of Everything

Abstract

Part 1: The International Cross Domain Conference (CD-ARES 2016)International audienceDistributed Market Spaces (DMS), refer to an exchange environment in emerging Internet of Everything, that supports users in making transactions of complex products; a novel type of products made up of different products and/or services that can be customized to better fit the individual context of the user. In order to express their demand for a particular complex product in a way that is interpretable by the DMS, users need flexible User Interfaces (UIs) that allow context-focused data collection related to the complexity of the user’s demand. This paper proposes a concept for generic UIs that enables users to compose their own UIs for requesting complex products, by combining existing UI descriptions for different parts of the particular complex product, as well as to share and improve UI descriptions among other users within the markets

Using Application Ontologies for the Automatic Generation of User Interfaces for Dialog-Based Applications

“…For the suitability of the proposed ontology as shareable, reusable application descriptions, we applied the approach to a concept for distributed marketspaces working with generic UIs for the specification of complex products. This work is already published in [10] and thus summarized here. The objective was to show, that application ontologies as proposed above can be (1) shared and used to generically build composed UIs and (2) can be used for non-UI-specific purposes -in this case to deduce a complex product request from the user input, that is an instance of the applications data model represented by the ontology.…”