Formalizing markup languages for user interface

• Autor(es): Ferreira, Luís Gonzaga Martins
• Data: 2004
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/6113
• Origem: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Assunto(s): 681.3.062; 681.3.04
• Tipo de Documento: Dissertação de mestrado
• Idioma: Inglês
• Orientador(es): Oliveira, José Nuno Fonseca
• Contribuidor(es): Universidade do Minho

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Dissertação de mestrado em Informática

This document presents a Dissertation theme, as integral part of Masters Degree in Distributed Systems, Computers Architecture and Computers Communication. The work has as primary objective the application of formal methods in the specification of presentation layer. Even reaching several relevance HCI concerns, the scope focus essentially on the way how formal methods can be explored to specify user interfaces described using markup languages.The state-of-the-art analysis of user interface markup languages and UIML-User Interface Markup Language formal specification are main contributions.Therefore the tabular graphical object OLAP main features are formally specified inVDM-SL and animated using UIML.This research should be considered as a contribution towards a definition of a visual component library,with user interfaces components composition and reuse.

Dissertação desenvolvida no âmbito do Projecto EUREKA IKF (E!2235)