CBEADS©: a framework to support meta-design paradigm

  • Authors:
  • Athula Ginige;Buddhima De Silva

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Western Sydney, NSW, Australia;University of Western Sydney, NSW, Australia

  • Venue:
  • UAHCI'07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Universal access in human computer interaction: coping with diversity
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We have developed a meta-model for Business applications. To generate applications using this meta-model we created a Component Based EBusiness Application Development and Deployment Shell; CBEADS©. The meta-model we created was based on three abstraction levels: Shell, Applications and Functions. The Shell provides the functionality common to any Web-based Business Application, and a set of configurable components and tools to create functions that are specific to an application. By using CBEADS© we can rapidly develop Web-based Business Applications by creating instances of the meta-model based on the Meta Design Paradigm. The key aspect that underpinned this research work was the viewpoint that "software is a medium to capture knowledge rather than a product". The developer's knowledge is embedded into the shell and the tools. The End-user's knowledge is used to populate instances of the meta-model from which applications are generated within CBEADS©.