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Legacy interface migration is becoming an increasingly important IT activity; many organizations are interested in cost effective and low risk processes for making their legacy systems accessible to new, web-based platforms. Most migration techniques proposed to date require a lot of human expertise. In this paper we discuss Mathaino, an intelligent, multi platform, semi-automated, and low risk solution for migrating legacy user interfaces to the web by wrapping them with web-accessible front-ends.
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Stroulia, E., Kapoor, R.V. (2002). Reverse Engineering Interaction Plans for Legacy Interface Migration. In: Kolski, C., Vanderdonckt, J. (eds) Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces III. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0421-3_26
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