Developing domain-specific mashup tools for end users

The recent emergence of mashup tools has refueled research on end user development, i.e., on enabling end users without programming skills to compose own applications. Yet, similar to what happened with analogous promises in web service composition and business process management, research has mostly focused on technology and, as a consequence, has failed its objective. Plain technology (e.g., SOAP/WSDL web services) or simple modeling languages (e.g., Yahoo! Pipes) don't convey enough meaning to non-programmers. We propose a domain-specific approach to mashups that "speaks the language of the user", i.e., that is aware of the terminology, concepts, rules, and conventions (the domain) the user is comfortable with. We show what developing a domain-specific mashup tool means, which role the mashup meta-model and the domain model play and how these can be merged into a domain-specific mashup meta-model. We apply the approach implementing a mashup tool for the research evaluation domain. Our user study confirms that domain-specific mashup tools indeed lower the entry barrier to mashup development.



Titolo: Developing domain-specific mashup tools for end users
Autori: Daniel, Florian; M., Imran; F., Kling; Soi, Stefano; Casati, Fabio; Marchese, Maurizio
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Daniel, Florian
Soi, Stefano
Casati, Fabio
Marchese, Maurizio
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Titolo del volume contenente il saggio: Proceedings of the 21st international conference companion on World Wide Web
Luogo di edizione: New York
Casa editrice: ACM
Anno di pubblicazione: 2012
Codice identificativo Scopus: 2-s2.0-84861024374
ISBN: 9781450312301
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/11572/96433
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