TASKS MODELS FOR COMPONENT CONTEXTUALIZATION

Arnaud Lewandowski, Grégory Bourguin, Jean-Claude Tarby

2007

Abstract

This paper proposes a solution to take into account the emerging and evolving nature of users’ needs in software environments. This solution consists in giving the users the means to adapt these environments by integrating new tools. Many technical solutions exist for software components integration, but their use is limited to software development experts. One reason is that current dynamic integration approaches face a semantic problem: to finely integrate a tool in an activity, its future place in this activity must be clearly identified. In order to facilitate this comprehension and the dynamic integration of software components, we propose a new approach of component design and integration, inspired by previous work on task modelling.

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Lewandowski A., Bourguin G. and Tarby J. (2007). TASKS MODELS FOR COMPONENT CONTEXTUALIZATION . In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-92-4, pages 176-181. DOI: 10.5220/0002387301760181


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@conference{iceis07,
author={Arnaud Lewandowski and Grégory Bourguin and Jean-Claude Tarby},
title={TASKS MODELS FOR COMPONENT CONTEXTUALIZATION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS,},
year={2007},
pages={176-181},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002387301760181},
isbn={978-972-8865-92-4},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS,
TI - TASKS MODELS FOR COMPONENT CONTEXTUALIZATION
SN - 978-972-8865-92-4
AU - Lewandowski A.
AU - Bourguin G.
AU - Tarby J.
PY - 2007
SP - 176
EP - 181
DO - 10.5220/0002387301760181