Interface Integration

Ontologies for User Interface Integration

Application integration can be carried out on three different levels: the data source level, the business logic level, and the user interface level. With ontologies-based integration on the data source level dating back to the 1990s and semantic web services for integrating on the business logic level coming of age, it is time for the next logical step: employing ontologies for integration on t...

OpenMAXTM Integration Layer Application Programming Interface Specification

Protocol System Integration, Interface and Interoperability

Heterogeneous network protocol systems are integrated together to fulfill complex tasks and their interoperability is a major hurdle for the network reliability and quality of services. We identify a new equivalence relation of states that preserves the integrated system interface behaviors. Based on this state equivalence we study the minimization of the system components with respect to their...

Graphical Interface Services for Application Integration

This paper describes a set of graphical object services which provide a cohesive, consistent application development environment for implementing graphical user interfaces in intelligent workstation applications. These objects are implemented as a set of controls using the Presentation ManagerTM windowing system. A control in the Presentation Manager environment is a user interface element with...

Interface Matching and Combining Techniques for Services Integration

—The development of many highly dynamic environments, like pervasive environments, introduces the possibility to use geographically closely-related services. Dynamically integrating and unintegrating these services in running applications is a key challenge for this use. In this article, we classify service integration issues according to interfaces exported by services and internal combining t...