Title :
Automating UI generation by model composition
Author :
Stirewalt, R. E Kurt ; Rugaber, Spencer
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, USA
Abstract :
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 deriving powerful, correct, and efficient user interfaces from multiple models specified in different notations. Solutions balance the advantages of separating code generation into specialized code generators with 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 through run-time composition mechanisms
Keywords :
formal specification; program compilers; software tools; user interface management systems; automated user-interface generation; code generation; interactive applications; model composition; multiple specialized modeling notations; run-time composition mechanisms; specification; Automation; Computer science; Educational institutions; Graphical user interfaces; Liver; Power engineering and energy; Power engineering computing; Power generation; Read only memory; User interfaces;
Conference_Titel :
Automated Software Engineering, 1998. Proceedings. 13th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8750-9
DOI :
10.1109/ASE.1998.732624