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Applying Meta-Modeling for the Definition of Model-Driven Development Methods of Advanced User Interfaces

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Model-Driven Development of Advanced User Interfaces

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The user interfaces of interactive systems become increasingly complex due to new interaction paradigms, required adaptability, use of innovative technologies, multi-media and interaction modalities. Their development thus demands for sophisticated processes and methods, as they are deployed in software engineering. Model-driven development is a promising candidate for mastering the complex development task in a systematic, precise and appropriately formal way. Although diverse models of advanced user interfaces are deployed in a development process to specify, design and implement the user interface, it is not standardized which models to use, how to combine them, and how to proceed in the course of development. Rather, this has to be defined by methods in the context of organizations, domains, projects. To cope with the definition of model-driven development methods for advanced user interfaces, we propose a meta-method for method engineering. It can be used for modeling and tailoring such development methods. We show how to apply this meta-method for designing development methods in the domain of advanced user interfaces.

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  1. s-lab – Software Quality Lab, University of Paderborn, Warburger Straße 100, D-33098, Paderborn, Germany

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Sauer, S. (2011). Applying Meta-Modeling for the Definition of Model-Driven Development Methods of Advanced User Interfaces. In: Hussmann, H., Meixner, G., Zuehlke, D. (eds) Model-Driven Development of Advanced User Interfaces. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 340. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14562-9_4

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