A domain model-driven approach for producing user interfaces to multi-platform information systems

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julien Stocq ◽  
Jean Vanderdonckt
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Domain Model ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Model Driven Approach

Developing User Interfaces for Community-Oriented Workflow Information Systems

2010 ◽  
pp. 308-330
Author(s):  
Josefina Guerrero Garcia ◽  
Jean Vanderdonckt ◽  
Juan Manuel Gonzalez Calleros
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Domain Model ◽  
Automated Generation ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Ubiquitous Access ◽  
Computing Platforms ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Web

Technology to support groups is rapidly growing in use. In recent years, the Web has become a privileged platform for implementing community-oriented workflows, giving rise to a new generation of workflow information systems. Specifically, the Web provides ubiquitous access to information, supports explicit distribution of business process across workers, workplaces, and computing platforms. These processes could be all supported by platform-independent user interfaces. This chapter presents a model-driven engineering method that provides designers with methodological guidance on how to systematically derive user interfaces of workflow information systems from a series of models. For this purpose, the workflow is recursively decomposed into processes which are in turn decomposed into tasks. Each task gives rise to a task model whose structure, ordering, and connection with the domain model allows the automated generation of corresponding user interfaces in a transformational approach. The various models involved in the method can be edited in a workflow editor based on Petri nets and simulated interactively.

Developing User Interfaces for Community-Oriented Workflow Information Systems

2010 ◽  
pp. 253-275
Author(s):  
Josefina Guerrero García ◽  
Jean Vanderdonckt ◽  
Juan Manuel González Calleros
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Domain Model ◽  
Automated Generation ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Ubiquitous Access ◽  
Computing Platforms ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Web

Technology to support groups is rapidly growing in use. In recent years, the Web has become a privileged platform for implementing community-oriented workflows, giving rise to a new generation of workflow information systems. Specifically, the Web provides ubiquitous access to information, supports explicit distribution of business process across workers, workplaces, and computing platforms. These processes could be all supported by platform-independent user interfaces. This chapter presents a model-driven engineering method that provides designers with methodological guidance on how to systematically derive user interfaces of workflow information systems from a series of models. For this purpose, the workflow is recursively decomposed into processes which are in turn decomposed into tasks. Each task gives rise to a task model whose structure, ordering, and connection with the domain model allows the automated generation of corresponding user interfaces in a transformational approach. The various models involved in the method can be edited in a workflow editor based on Petri nets and simulated interactively.

scholarly journals A MODEL-DRIVEN APPROACH FOR MULTI-PLATFORM EXECUTION OF INTERACTIVE UIS DESIGNED WITH IFML

2019 ◽  
pp. 293-306
Author(s):  
Sara Gotti ◽  
Samir Mbarki ◽  
Zineb Gotti ◽  
Naziha Laaz
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Machine ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Hybrid Approach ◽  
Domain Model ◽  
Model Transformations ◽  
Description Language ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Front End ◽  
Code Generators ◽  
Model Driven Approach

Quite recently, considerable attention has been paid to the design, implementation and evaluation of graphical user interfaces due to the apparition of the new strategic trend of computing everywhere. Accordingly, it is necessary to adopt an abstract representation of systems front-end in order to ensure this trend. IFML (Interaction Flow Modeling Language) is a user interfaces description language used to describe the content and interaction behavior of applications front-end. It has been conceived with executability aspect that is obtained via model transformations and full code generators into functional codes. however, these code generators are often accompanied by a loss of information. The main goal of this paper is to present a new virtual machine for directly executing GUIs models designed with IFML language in combination with UML domain model; that captures the content dependency. These input models will be then run on different platforms and devices. We adopted a new model driven approach that includes the hybrid approach of interpretive compiler; through a set of transformation rules, for the implementation of the desired virtual machine.

A Model Driven Approach based on Interaction Flow Modeling Language to Generate Rich Internet Applications

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 3073
Author(s):  
Sarra Roubi ◽  
Mohammed Erramdani ◽  
Samir Mbarki
Keyword(s):  
User Interfaces ◽  
Code Generation ◽  
Model Transformations ◽  
Modeling Framework ◽  
Rich Internet Application ◽  
Internet Applications ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Rich Internet Applications ◽  
Desktop Interfaces ◽  
Model Driven Approach

<p><span lang="EN-US">A Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) combine the simplicity of the hypertext paradigm with the flexibility of desktop interfaces. These appliations were proposed as a solution to follow the rapid growth and evolution of the Graphical User Interfaces. However, RIAs are complex applications and their development requires designing and implementation which are time-consuming and the available tools are specialized in manual design. In this paper, we present a model driven approach to generat GUI for Rich Internet Application. The approach exploits the new language IFML recently adopted by the Object Management Group. We used frameworks and technologies known to Model-Driven Engineering, such as Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) for Meta-modeling, Query View Transformation (QVT) for model transformations and Acceleo for code generation. The approach allows to quickly and efficiently generating a RIA focusing on the graphical aspect of the application.</span></p>

Educational Challenge of Health Information Systems’ Interoperability

2007 ◽  
Vol 46 (01) ◽  
pp. 52-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. G. M. E. Blobel
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Systems Design ◽  
Formal Modeling ◽  
Close Collaboration ◽  
Context Sensitive ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Educational Challenge ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Model Driven Approach ◽  
Model Interchange

Summary Objectives: As health care develops from an organization-centered via service-centered (disease management) towards a person-centered system (favored homecare, patient monitoring, body area networks), information systems involved have to be semantically interoperable, process-related, decision-supportive, context-sensitive, user-oriented, and trustworthy. Methods: The aforementioned paradigm shift requires highly flexible solutions based on knowledge concepts, provided by a service-oriented and model-driven approach. Results: Information systems’ design, implementation and maintenance have to be realized based on formal grammar. This is true for all considered aspects and views of the system and its components, using metalanguages and reflecting all domains touched. Conclusions: For meeting the challenge, involvement of, and close collaboration between, experts from different domains as well as knowledge and tooling regarding formal modeling and model interchange are required.

scholarly journals Towards a model-driven approach for multiexperience AI-based user interfaces

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Planas ◽  
Gwendal Daniel ◽  
Marco Brambilla ◽  
Jordi Cabot
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
The Other ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Software Applications ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Faster Development ◽  
Model Driven Approach

AbstractSoftware systems start to include other types of interfaces beyond the “traditional” Graphical-User Interfaces (GUIs). In particular, Conversational User Interfaces (CUIs) such as chat and voice are becoming more and more popular. These new types of interfaces embed smart natural language processing components to understand user requests and respond to them. To provide an integrated user experience all the user interfaces in the system should be aware of each other and be able to collaborate. This is what is known as a multiexperience User Interface. Despite their many benefits, multiexperience UIs are challenging to build. So far CUIs are created as standalone components using a platform-dependent set of libraries and technologies. This raises significant integration, evolution and maintenance issues. This paper explores the application of model-driven techniques to the development of software applications embedding a multiexperience User Interface. We will discuss how raising the abstraction level at which these interfaces are defined enables a faster development and a better deployment and integration of each interface with the rest of the software system and the other interfaces with whom it may need to collaborate. In particular, we propose a new Domain Specific Language (DSL) for specifying several types of CUIs and show how this DSL can be part of an integrated modeling environment able to describe the interactions between the modeled CUIs and the other models of the system (including the models of the GUI). We will use the standard Interaction Flow Modeling Language (IFML) as an example “host” language.

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