reusable decision space for mashup tool design

Reusable Decision Space for Mashup Tool Design

Saeed Aghaee, Marcin Nowak, and Cesare Pautasso

Faculty of InformaticsUniversity of Lugano (USI)

Switzerland

Homepage: http://www.saeed-aghaee.info/Email: saeed.aghaee@usi.ch

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Web Mashups

Web mashups mixreusable, programmable elementson the Web

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● DNS Tools API

● DNSimple API

● Domain API

● DomainTool API

● Google AJAX Language API

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Mashup Tool

Create & use mashups

End-user

End-user Mashup Development

7Yahoo! Pipes

8Yahoo! Pipes

● Wiring Paradigm

● Online Community

● One-Click & Run

● Advanced non-programmers

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10Dapper

● Programming by Demonstration

● No online Community

● One-Click & Run

● Absolute non-programmers

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Design Decision

Space

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Design Decision

Space

1) Classify and explain the heterogeneity of existing mashup tools

2) Provide a guidance model to mashup tool designers

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Design Decision

Space

9 Design Issues

27 Alternatives

Mashup Tools

+60 mashup tools

Extract design issues and alternatives

Validate design issues and alternatives

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Design Decision

Space

9 Design Issues

27 Alternatives

Mashup Tools

+60 mashup tools

Extract design issues and alternatives

Validate design issues and alternatives

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Strategic

● Specificity

● Target end-users

● Automation degree

Environment specific

● Liveness

● Online community

● Collaborative development

Language

● Interaction Technique

● Visual language

● Control flow

Design Decision Space: Issues

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Strategic

● Specificity

● Target end-users

● Automation degree

Environment specific

● Liveness

● Online community

● Collaborative development

Language

● Interaction Technique

● Visual language

● Control flow

Design Decision Space: Issues

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Design Issue

Alternative Alternative

● Examples:● Examples:

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Strategic: Target End-user [Nardi, 1993]

Nonprogrammers

Localdevelopers

Programmers

Examples:● Dapper● Piggy bank

Examples:● JOpera● JackBe Presto

Examples:● Swashup● WMSL

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Strategic: Target End-user [Nardi, 1993]

Nonprogrammers

Localdevelopers

Programmers

Examples:● Dapper● Piggy bank

Examples:● JOpera● JackBe Presto

Examples:● Swashup● WMSL

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Strategic: Automation Degree

Automatic

Example:● Piggy bank

Semi-automatic

Examples:● MashArt● IBM Mashup Center

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Language: Interaction Technique

Examplemodification

Form_based PbD Spreadsheets

Textual DSL Visuallanguage

WYSIWYG Naturallanguage

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Language: Interaction Technique

Form-based

FeedRinse

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Language: Interaction Technique

Programming by Demonstration

Vegemite

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Language: Interaction Technique

Spreadsheets

Karma

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Language: Interaction Technique

WYSIWYG

ServFace builder

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Language: Interaction Technique

Natural Language

EnglishMash

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Language: Interaction Technique

Textual DSL

Swashup

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Language: Interaction Technique

Example Modification

d.mix

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Language: Interaction TechniqueAlternative: Visual Language

Wiring Iconic

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Language: Visual Language

Iconic

SABRE

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Language: Visual Language

Wiring

JOpera

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Language: Visual LanguageAlternative: Wiring

Explicit Control Flow Implicit Control Flow

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Language: Control Flow

Explicit

Kapow Katalyst

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Language: Control Flow

Implicit

JackBe Presto

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Environment: Liveness [Tanimoto, 1990]

Blueprint (L1) ExecutableBlueprint (L2)

One-Click &Run (L3)

Live (L4)

MS Visio PetalsBPM

JackBePresto

DashMash

D RD D DR

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Environment: Collaboration

WikiFork & Edit Blackboard

● Yahoo! Pipes ● Lively Wiki ● Sqwelch

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Environment: Online Community SKIP

Public Private

● IBM Mashup Center● Yahoo! Pipes

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Reusable Decision Space for Mashup Tool Design

Saeed Aghaee, Marcin Nowak, and Cesare Pautasso

Faculty of InformaticsUniversity of Lugano (USI)

Switzerland

Homepage: http://www.saeed-aghaee.info/Email: saeed.aghaee@usi.chSAW: http://saw.inf.unisi.ch