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Towards a Generic Cloud-Based Modeling Environment

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Digital Information Processing and Communications (ICDIPC 2011)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 188))

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This paper is aimed at presenting a concept of a flexible diagramming framework for building engineering and educational applications. The framework was designed to serve as a platform for online services and collaborative environments where users typically work on remotely stored, shared data through a browser-based user interface. The paper summarizes the common requirements towards such services, overviews related approaches and gives insights into some design challenges through the analysis of use-cases. The design problem is examined from a user-centered view: the key motivation of our research is to find innovative, possibly device-independent solutions that enable seamless user experiences. Finally a generic framework based on a HTML-JavaScript library is proposed, which could be employed for implementing wide range of software solutions from e-learning to cloud-based modeling environments.

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  1. Institute for Software Integrated Systems, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, U.S.A.

    Laszlo Juracz & Larry Howard

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  1. Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, VÅ B-TUO, 17. listopadu 15, 708 33, Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic

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  2. Information Systems Department, King Saud University, 11543, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Eyas El-Qawasmeh

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Juracz, L., Howard, L. (2011). Towards a Generic Cloud-Based Modeling Environment. In: Snasel, V., Platos, J., El-Qawasmeh, E. (eds) Digital Information Processing and Communications. ICDIPC 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 188. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22389-1_4

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