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Tooling and system support for authoring multi-device applications

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Guruduth Banavar,

Lawrence D. Bergman,

Yves Gaeremynck,

Jeremy SussmanAuthors Info & Claims

Journal of Systems and Software, Volume 69, Issue 3

Pages 227 - 242

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0164-1212(03)00053-0

Published: 15 January 2004 Publication History

Abstract

This paper presents a development model, tooling environment, and system support for building and deploying applications targeted to run on multiple heterogeneous end-user devices. Our approach is based on a device-independent application model and consists of three elements: (1) an automated process of specialization, by which device-specific versions of the application are generated, (2) support for hand-customization of generated applications, a process we call tweaking, both within our workbench and using external editors, and (3) a designer-in-the-loop process of generalization, by which a generic model is inferred from concrete interface artifacts such as HTML pages. We argue that this approach is cost-effective and results in usable applications that run on a variety of devices.

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Index Terms

Tooling and system support for authoring multi-device applications
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Architectures
    1. Other architectures
      1. Heterogeneous (hybrid) systems
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Development frameworks and environments
      1. Integrated and visual development environments
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Distributed systems organizing principles
        Organizing principles for web applications

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Journal of Systems and Software Volume 69, Issue 3

Special issue: Ubiquitous computing

15 January 2004

89 pages

ISSN:0164-1212

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