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User Interface Declarative Models and Development Environments: A Survey

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Interactive Systems Design, Specification, and Verification (DSV-IS 2000)

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Model-Based User Interface Development Environments (MBUIDEs) provide a context within which user interface declarative models can be constructed and related, as part of the user interface design process. This paper provides a review of MB-UIDE technologies. A framework for describing the elements of a MB-UIDE is presented. A representative collection of 14 MBUIDEs are selected, described in terms of the framework, compared and analysed from the information available in the literature. The framework can be used as an introduction to the MB-UIDE technology since it relates and provides a description for the terms used in MB-UIDE papers.

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Pinheiro da Silva, P. (2001). User Interface Declarative Models and Development Environments: A Survey. In: Palanque, P., Paternò, F. (eds) Interactive Systems Design, Specification, and Verification. DSV-IS 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1946. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44675-3_13

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