INTERACTIVE COMPONENT VISUALIZATION Visual Representation of Component-based Applications using the ENT Meta-model
UML is considered to be a universal solution for diagramming any application, but UML also has its shortcomings. It needs several diagrams to describe one problem, it cannot create different views on one diagram and it is not interactive. This leads to hours spent drawing the same thing from different views, any change has to be applied several times and the author of a UML diagram has to balance between good readability and providing a sufficient amount of information. In particular, the UML component diagram has insufficient expressive power to capture all the facts of even today s component models and architectures. In this paper, we propose a visualization aimed at modular and composed architecture that is content-aware, so it can present the model of component-based architecture in different ways, depending on user needs. By default, it presents minimum information to reduce cognitive load and keep the diagrams comprehensible, while making the additional information available when the user needs it. This paper thus suggests a possible substitute for UML in the domain of component-based applications.
Component Visualization UML Meta-model Views Content-aware
Jaroslav (S)najberk P（r）emek Brada
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia Pilsen, Czech Republic
国际会议
13th International Conference on Enterprise Information System(第13届企业信息系统国际会议 ICEIS 2011)
北京
英文
1855-1862
2011-06-08（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）