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ICSOFT 2013: Software Technologies pp 180–195Cite as

Platform-Independence in Model-Driven Development of Graphical User Interfaces for Multiple Devices

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We would like to encourage you to list your keywords within Model-driven development of Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) for multiple devices involves the transformation of the same platform-independent model to several platform-dependent GUI models. A clear definition of which characteristics comprise a platform is important, because the platform definition determines which characteristics must not be considered in platform-independent models. In this chapter we compare the notion of platform and the corresponding implications in two conceptual approaches that support multi-device GUI generation – the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) proposed by OMG and the Cameleon Reference Framework (CRF), a framework that has been developed to classify model-based user interface generation approaches. We discuss the relation between MDA and CRF in the context of multi-device GUI generation and illustrate their correspondence through classifying state-of-the-art GUI generation approaches. This classification also allows us to illustrate three different mechanisms for achieving multi-device GUI generation in practice.

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Notes

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    http://www.omg.org/spec/IFML/, http://www.ifml.org

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    http://www.w3.org/wiki/Model-Based_User_Interfaces

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    see also http://www.w3.org/wiki/Model-Based_User_Interfaces

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    http://www.usixml.org

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    http://www.ifml.org/

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    http://www.omg.org/spec/IFML/

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    http://www.webml.org

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    http://ucp.ict.tuwien.ac.at

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  1. Institute of Computer Technology, Vienna University of Technology, Gusshausstrasse 27-29, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    David Raneburger

  2. Faculty of Computer Science, Heilbronn University, Max-Planck-Str. 39, 74081, Heilbronn, Germany

    Gerrit Meixner

  3. Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Via Ponzio 34/5, 20133, Milan, Italy

    Marco Brambilla

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Raneburger, D., Meixner, G., Brambilla, M. (2014). Platform-Independence in Model-Driven Development of Graphical User Interfaces for Multiple Devices. In: Cordeiro, J., van Sinderen, M. (eds) Software Technologies. ICSOFT 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 457. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44920-2_12

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