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Modeling and Calculating Capabilities of Composite Web Applications for Assisted End User Development

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Based on an increasing number of web resources and services, the mashup paradigm enables end users to create custom web applications consisting of several components in order to fulfill specific needs. End user development of such composite web applications poses tough challenges to composition platforms, especially with non-programmers as end users. For instance, communicating on a non-technical level is crucial. Furthermore, assistance is essential throughout the entire process, ranging from composition to usage of mashups. Amongst others, users should be supported by explaining inter-widget communication, by helping to understand a mashup’s functionality and by identifying mashups providing desired functionality. However, prevalent mashup solutions provide no or limited concepts regarding these aspects. In this paper, we introduce our proposal for formalizing and calculating the functionality of mashup compositions based on capabilities and communication relations of mashup components as well as semantic domain knowledge. It serves as a foundation for our assisted, capability-centered end user development approach within the CRUISE platform. The latter features several assistance mechanisms, like presenting the functionality of mashups and recommending composition steps. We describe a prototypical implementation of the proposed algorithm and discuss its usage in our platform. Additionally, we evaluate our modeling and algorithmic concepts by means of example applications and an expert evaluation.

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    https://jena.apache.org/.

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    http://getbootstrap.com/javascript/#popovers.

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The work of Carsten Radeck is funded by the European Union and the Free State of Saxony within the EFRE program. Gregor Blichmann is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (ref. no. 01MU13001D).

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    Carsten Radeck, Gregor Blichmann & Klaus Meißner

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Radeck, C., Blichmann, G., Meißner, K. (2017). Modeling and Calculating Capabilities of Composite Web Applications for Assisted End User Development. In: Monfort, V., Krempels, KH., Majchrzak, T., Traverso, P. (eds) Web Information Systems and Technologies. WEBIST 2016. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 292. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66468-2_4

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