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An enhanced approach to automatic generation of mobile widgets

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Mobile widgets represent applications exploiting web technologies and providing specific functionalities in an efficient and user-friendly way. This paper presents our approach to the automatic generation of widgets, which is based on the separation of concerns between the specification of their structural and functional characteristics, and their appearance. The validation of our solution has been done through various case studies, among which we mention the DISCo widget, a mobile widget which provides academic information for the students of the Computer Science Department at the University of Milano-Bicocca in Italy.

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  • (2013)Component based Framework to Create Mobile Cross-platform ApplicationsProcedia Computer Science10.1016/j.procs.2013.06.14019(1004-1011)Online publication date: 2013

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iiWAS '10: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services
November 2010
895 pages
ISBN:9781450304214
DOI:10.1145/1967486
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