Providing end-user facilities to simplify ontology-driven web application authoring |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Computer Science, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman;2. Center of Research in Informatics, University Paris 1, Paris, France;1. Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, USA;2. University of Michigan - Flint, Flint, MI, USA;3. MedExpress, Morgantown, WV, USA;4. West Virgina University, Morgantown, WV, USA;5. University of North Carolina - Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA;1. Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Luxembourg, 6 Avenue de la Fonte, L-4364 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg;2. CNR – National Research Council of Italy, IEIIT, c.so Duca degli Abruzzi 24, Torino I-10129, Italy;3. RealTime-at-Work (RTaW), 4 Rue Piroux, Nancy 54000, France;1. University of Basilicata, Viale Dell’Ateneo 10, Macchia Romana, Potenza, Italy;2. M3S, University of Oulu, Pentti Kaiteran katu 1, Oulu, Finland;3. Facultad de Informatica, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo, 28660 Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain |
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| Abstract: | Generally speaking, emerging web-based technologies are mostly intended for professional developers. They pay poor attention to users who have no programming abilities but need to customize software applications. At some point, such needs force end-users to act as designers in various aspects of software authoring and development. Every day, more new computing-related professionals attempt to create and modify existing applications in order to customize web-based artifacts that will help them carry out their daily tasks. In general they are domain experts rather than skilled software designers, and new authoring mechanisms are needed in order that they can accomplish their tasks properly. The work we present is an effort to supply end-users with easy mechanisms for authoring web-based applications. To complement this effort, we present a user study showing that it is possible to carry out a trade-off between expressiveness and ease of use in order to provide end-users with authoring facilities. |
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