NDLI: A tag-based approach for the design and composition of information processing applications

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Author	Ranganathan, Anand Feblowitz, Mark Riabov, Anton Liu, Zhen Bouillet, Eric
Abstract	In the realm of component-based software systems, pursuers of the holy grail of automated application composition face many significant challenges. In this paper we argue that, while the general problem of automated composition in response to high-level goal statements is indeed very difficult to solve, we can realize composition in a restricted context, supporting varying degrees of manual to automated assembly for specific types of applications. We propose a novel paradigm for composition in flow-based information processing systems, where application design and component development are facilitated by the pervasive use of faceted, tag-based descriptions of processing goals, of component capabilities, and of structural patterns of families of application. The facets and tags represent different dimensions of both data and processing, where each facet is modeled as a finite set of tags that are defined in a controlled folksonomy. All data flowing through the system, as well as the functional capabilities of components are described using tags. A customized AI planner is used to automatically build an application, in the form of a flow of components, given a high-level goal specification in the form of a set of tags. End-users use an automatically populated faceted search and navigation mechanism to construct these high-level goals. We also propose a novel software engineering methodology to design and develop a set of reusable, well-described components that can be assembled into a variety of applications. With examples from a case study in the Financial Services domain, we demonstrate that composition using a faceted, tag-based application design is not only possible, but also extremely useful in helping end-users create situational applications from a wide variety of available components.
Starting Page	585
Ending Page	602
Page Count	18
File Format	PDF
ISSN	03621340 15581160
DOI	10.1145/1449955.1449810
Journal	ACM SIGPLAN Notices (SIGP)
Volume Number	43
Issue Number	10
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1983-05-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Composition Faceted navigation Tag cloud Automated application assembly Component reuse Programmable web Tag-based component description
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Software

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