Metamodeling functional and interactive parts of systems for composition considerations

Abstract

Software Composition techniques improve the reusability of systems built by composing smaller software artifacts. Composition is a challenge for Human Computer Interaction and Software Engineering communities. These communities have proposed metamodeling approaches in order to address composition at a high level and to overcome technological diversity as advocated by the Model Driven paradigm. However, such metamodels cover only one aspect of system composition. This leads to build incomplete systems. To tackle this problem, we propose a global composition approach that takes into account the functional composition choices and that maintains the interaction links between interactive and functional parts of systems. This paper presents the metamodeling on which relies the proposed composition approach.

Towards Conflict Management in User Interface Composition Driven by Business Needs

“…In Alias, each application is modeled as an assembly of a UI component and a FC component and compositions are expressed in a similar way to component assemblies such as in UML2.0 component diagram [21]. Describing formally the underlying models is not in the scope of this paper but they can be found in [4]. UI and FC parts of an application are represented as components with ports and compositions as bindings between components.…”