A META-MODEL FOR THE DIALOG FLOW NOTATION

Matthias Book, Volker Gruhn, Nils Mirbach

2005

Abstract

While the separation of presentation and application logic is widely practiced in web-based applications today, many do not cleanly separate application and dialog control logic, which leads to inflexible implementations especially when multiple presentation channels shall be served by the same application logic. We therefore present a notation for specifying the complete dialog flow of an application separately from the application logic and show how to construct a formal metamodel for it using the OMG’s Meta-Object Facility (MOF). This allows the validation of dialog flow models, as well as the generation of machine-readable dialog flow specifications from graphical models.

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Book M., Gruhn V. and Mirbach N. (2005). A META-MODEL FOR THE DIALOG FLOW NOTATION . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 972-8865-20-1, pages 64-71. DOI: 10.5220/0001228000640071


in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist05,
author={Matthias Book and Volker Gruhn and Nils Mirbach},
title={A META-MODEL FOR THE DIALOG FLOW NOTATION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2005},
pages={64-71},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001228000640071},
isbn={972-8865-20-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - A META-MODEL FOR THE DIALOG FLOW NOTATION
SN - 972-8865-20-1
AU - Book M.
AU - Gruhn V.
AU - Mirbach N.
PY - 2005
SP - 64
EP - 71
DO - 10.5220/0001228000640071