Computer-Aided Specification, Evaluation and Monitoring of Information Systems

One of the crucial issues in specifying requirements for an In formation System is to guarantee the effectiveness and the efficiency of their future implementation. The objectives of the methodology, proposed in the IDA project and presented in this paper, have been: 1. To propose a model and an associated language for a more rigourous specification of Information Systems, 2. To develop among others two complementary software tools allowing the experimental evaluation of this specification, by prototyping and simulation, before to implement it · and, more recently, 3. To outline an automated monitoring of the implemented Information System

Towards a Dynamic Strategy for Computer-Aided Visual Placement

This study is devoted to the layout problem in the TRIDENT project (Tools foR an Interactive Development ENvironmenT) , which is dedicated to highly interactive business -oriented applications. In this project, the placement problem consists of a computer-aided visual placement of interaction objects (IO) included in a more composite IO called Presentation Unit (PU). Two strategies for placing IO within a PU are characterised and investigated : a static twocolumn based strategy and a dynamic right/bottom strategy. Each strategy decomposes the placement into three partially overlapping dimensions : localisation, dimensioning, and arrangement. A set of simple mathematical relationships is introduced to rate the quality of visual principles gained with the result of each strategy within the three dimensions. This rating shows that the lack of flexibility should lead us more towards a dynamic strategy for computer-aided visual placement. KEYWORDS: Dynamic Strategy, Grid, Interaction Objec..

Architecture Elements for Highly-Interactive Business-Oriented Applications

. It is now widely recognized that powerful architecture elements are needed for implementing highly-interactive business-oriented applications during at least two stages of the whole lifecycle, namely the specification and the design. In this paper, we deal with the architecture model of the TRIDENT project, which introduces three components : the semantic core component, the dialog component and the presentation component. This is a hierarchical object -oriented architecture relying on the use of three kinds of objects : application objects, dialog objects, and interaction objects. Specification and rule languages are given for developing the dialog component. An abstract data model is used for characterizing the application objects. Selection rules are given for choosing appropriate interaction objects for the presentation component according to the abstract data model and to the user level. 1 Introduction It is highly desirable to have a stable methodology addressing the whole dev..