The Model-Composition Problem in User-Interface Generation

Automated user-interface generation environments have been criticized for their failure to deliver rich and powerful interactive applications. To specify more powerful systems, designers require multiple specialized modeling notations. The model-composition problem is concerned with automatically sy...

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Published in:Automated software engineering 2000, Vol.7 (2), p.101-124
Main Authors: Stirewalt, R.E. Kurt, Rugaber, Spencer
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Composition
Separation
User interfaces
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Summary:Automated user-interface generation environments have been criticized for their failure to deliver rich and powerful interactive applications. To specify more powerful systems, designers require multiple specialized modeling notations. The model-composition problem is concerned with automatically synthesizing powerful, correct, and efficient user interfaces from multiple models specified in different notations. Solutions to the model-composition problem must balance the advantages of separating code generation into specialized code generators each able to take advantage of deep, model-specific knowledge against the correctness and efficiency obstacles that result from such separation. We present a correct and efficient solution that maximizes the advantage of separation by using run-time composition mechanisms.
ISSN:0928-8910
1573-7535
DOI:10.1023/A:1008758107773