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User Interface Modelling Languages for Normalised Systems: Systematic Literature Review

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Normalised System Theory provides a theoretical foundation on how to build software with respect to change over time. An advanced development platform has been built by the NSX company to build Normalised Systems in practice, from modelling tools to implementation. However, there is a lack of support for modelling user interfaces in the platform, so any non-default requirements require manual customisations, which can introduce combinatorial effects and thus harm evolvability. Nevertheless, the research and development of modelling languages for user interfaces has been a continuous effort since the software started using user interfaces. So in this study, we aim to find recent existing UI modelling languages, define the criteria of suitability for modelling UI of Normalised Systems and evaluate them. The results can be used for implementing UI modelling for Normalised Systems.

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    https://normalizedsystems.org/platform/.

  2. 2.

    https://www.webratio.com/site/content/en/development-platform.

  3. 3.

    https://www.ifmledit.org.

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This research was supported by the grant of Czech Technical University in Prague No. SGS20/209/OHK3/3T/18.

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  3. Institute of Data Science and Digital Technologies, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

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Slifka, J., Pergl, R. (2022). User Interface Modelling Languages for Normalised Systems: Systematic Literature Review. In: Rocha, A., Adeli, H., Dzemyda, G., Moreira, F. (eds) Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 470. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04829-6_31

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