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in the context of model-based multi-device UI devel-
opment is that a platform must specify software and
hardware characteristics, so that such characteristics
do not have to be considered in the high-level interac-
tion models. The information required to transform
such PIMs to PSMs is typically either provided in
form of model annotations or platform-specific trans-
formations. One further implication is that high-level
interaction models need to specify all information that
can be exchanged in parallel as concurrently avail-
able. This allows for splitting the information accord-
ing to certain platform characteristics while the PSM
is derived and thus for tailoring a GUI for a certain
screen space.
We showed that the CRF platform definition re-
fines the MDA platform definition. So, both defi-
nitions support multi-device UI development, but no
general one-to-one correspondence between the meta-
models involved in a certain MBUID approach clas-
sified as MDA models, and the CRF levels can be
established. The reason is that the use of a certain
meta-model instance strongly depends on the trans-
formation approach. For example, task models are
platform-independent if they use annotations to spec-
ify which task is available on a certain device, or
platform-dependent if they consider hardware charac-
teristics like screen-size when specifying which infor-
mation is concurrently available. However, a one-to-
one correspondence indicates that a certain approach
supports multi-device UI generation.
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