A component based approach to human computer interaction [Elektronische Ressource] : specification, composition, and application to information services / vorgelegt von Thomas Feyer

A Component Based Approach toHuman Computer InteractionSpecification, Composition, and Application toInformation ServicesVon der Fakultat¨ fur¨ Mathematik, Naturwissenschaften und Informatik¨der Brandenburgischen Technischen Universitat Cottbuszur Erlangung des akademischen GradesDoktor der Naturwissenschaften(Dr. rer. nat.)genehmigte Dissertationvorgelegt vonDiplom InformatikerThomas Feyergeboren am 14. September 1972 in HalleGutachter: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Bernhard Thalheim Prof. Mag. Dr. rer. nat. Dr. h. c. Heinrich C. MayrGutachter: Prof. Dr. Ing. Hannu JaakkolaTag der mundlichen¨ Prufung:¨ 11. Dezember 2003To my father.AbstractThe discipline of software engineering is increasingly shifting from classical designand development tasks towards tasks concerning reuse, adaptation, and integration.Driving motivations for this shift are (i) decreasing development time and costs and(ii) increasing quality of design results. Unfortunately, these new tasks are not yetsupported sufficiently. While classical approaches to information system’s design arequite well suited to a design from scratch, they do not provide powerful concepts con cerning reuse. Although encapsulation by means of functions, classes, or sub systemsprovides opportunities for reusing functionality, methods concerning encapsulation ofdialog structures are commonly neglected. On the one hand, an approach to reusing seems quite promising wrt.