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Task-Driven Composition of Web User Interfaces

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Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces VI

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This chapter proposes an approach to flexible user interface generation. The basic idea is to extend a task model with fragments of the abstract user interface and to pass over this information to the runtime system. The system is based on an architecture that separates a task controller and a page composer. The controller enables the user to interact with the web application according to the specification. The composer is responsible for creating the concrete description of web pages.

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    The example of this chapter is deployed at our runtime engine. It is online available at http://sirius.fernuni-hagen.de.

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  1. Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Information Systems and Databases, University of Hagen, Hagen, Germany

    Stefan Betermieux

  2. Applied Computer Science, University Fulda, University Fulda, Germany

    Birgit Bomsdorf

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  1. Escuela Politecnica Superior de Albacete, Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Campus Universitario s/n, Albacete, 02071, Spain

    Victor Lopez Jaquero

  2. Escuela Politecnica Superior, Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Campus Universitario s/n, Albacete, 02071, Spain

    Francisco Montero Simarro

  3. Escuela Politecnica Superior de Albacete, Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Campus Universitario s/n, Albacete, 02071, Spain

    Jose Pascual Molina Masso

  4. Institut d'Administration et de Gestion, Université catholique de Louvain, Place des Doyens 1, Louvain-la-Neuve, 1348, Belgium

    Jean Vanderdonckt

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Betermieux, S., Bomsdorf, B. (2009). Task-Driven Composition of Web User Interfaces . In: Lopez Jaquero, V., Montero Simarro, F., Molina Masso, J., Vanderdonckt, J. (eds) Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces VI. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-206-1_21

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