Title
Component-based authoring of complex, Petri net-based digital library infrastructure
Abstract
caT, a Petri net-based hypertext system, serves as a platform for unified modeling of digital library infrastructure and its governing policies, user characteristics, and their contextual information. Traditionally, users have created caT networks from scratch, thus limiting their use to small collections. In this paper we introduce TcAT, a component-based authoring tool, which enables the creation of large caT nets that can represent interaction-rich, real-life spaces such as libraries and museums. TcAT implements composition operations from Petri net theory, allowing authors to select and modify existing net fragments as templated building blocks for larger networks. Authors may switch between visual and textual modes at will, thus combining the strengths of expressing large nets textually and selecting net fragments via point-and-click interaction. A user evaluation of the new authoring mechanisms suggests that this is a promising tool for improving the efficiency of experienced users as well as that of novice users, who are unfamiliar with the Petri net formalism.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1007/978-3-642-15464-5_4
ECDL3
Keywords
Field
DocType
petri net,composition operator,digital library,unified model
Hypertext,World Wide Web,Contextual information,Scratch,Petri net,Computer science,Formalism (philosophy),Digital library,Limiting
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
6273
0302-9743
3-642-15463-8
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
9
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yungah Park110.37
Unmil Karadkar2615.31
Richard Furuta31017171.79