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Hosted Universal Composition: Models, Languages and Infrastructure in mashArt

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Conceptual Modeling - ER 2009 (ER 2009)

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Information integration, application integration and component-based software development have been among the most important research areas for decades. The last years have been characterized by a particular focus on web services, the very recent years by the advent of web mashups, a new and user-centric form of integration on the Web. However, while service composition approaches lack support for user interfaces, web mashups still lack well engineered development approaches and mature technological foundations.

In this paper, we aim to overcome both these shortcomings and propose what we call a universal composition approach that naturally brings together data and application services with user interfaces. We propose a unified component model and a universal, event-based composition model, both able to abstract from low-level implementation details and technology specifics. Via the mashArt platform, we then provide universal composition as a service in form of an easy-to-use graphical development tool equipped with an execution environment for fast deployment and execution of composite Web applications.

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  1. University of Trento, Via Sommarive 14, 38050, Trento, Italy

    Florian Daniel & Fabio Casati

  2. University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia

    Boualem Benatallah

  3. SAP Labs, 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, USA

    Ming-Chien Shan

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Av. Antônio Carlos 6627, Prédio do ICEx, sala 4010, Pampulha , Belo, 31270-901, Horizonte, MG, Brazil

    Alberto H. F. Laender

  2. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Informazione, DICo, Università degli Studi di Milano, Comelico, 39/41, 20135, Milano, Italy

    Silvana Castano

  3. Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, 1501 Page Mill Rd., 94304, Palo Alto, CA, USA

    Umeshwar Dayal

  4. Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Via sommarive 14, 38050, Povo (Trento), Italy

    Fabio Casati

  5. Instituto de Informática, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Caixa Postal 15.064, 91.501-970, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil

    José Palazzo M. de Oliveira

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Daniel, F., Casati, F., Benatallah, B., Shan, MC. (2009). Hosted Universal Composition: Models, Languages and Infrastructure in mashArt. In: Laender, A.H.F., Castano, S., Dayal, U., Casati, F., de Oliveira, J.P.M. (eds) Conceptual Modeling - ER 2009. ER 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5829. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04840-1_32

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