Towards automatically interfacing application services integrated into an automated, model-based user interface generation process

The impact of user interface quality has grown in software system engineering. This importance will grow further with upcoming new paradigms such as Ambient Intelligence or Ubiquitous Computing. These paradigms confront the production industry with a new diversity of usage situations. In previous work, we have shown the adaptation of a task-oriented, model-based Useware engineering process to future paradigms by extending existing models and shifting the development/generation of the user interface (UI) from development time to run-time. While separating the UI design from the application engineering process, the problem of the generated UI interfacing with the corresponding service functions emerged. We propose a solution by integrating the respective linkage information into the function model, which will be introduced in this paper.