Title
Visual programming of location-based services
Abstract
In this paper we discuss a visual programming environment for design and rapid prototyping of web-based applications, securely connected to remote Location-Based Services. The visual programming approach of this research is based on computation as data transformation within a dataflow, and on visual composition of web services. The VisPro environment uses a very simple approach to service composition: (a) the developer takes a set of web widgets from a library, (b) builds interactively a user interface by drag and drop, (c) builds the application logic of the web service by drawing the connections between boxes (standing for suitable data transformations) and widgets (standing for user interaction). The development session produces, in presentation mode, a web page where the user may trigger, and interact with, the novel data mining and related computation. A successful GUI (and logic) is abstracted as a new service, characterized by a new widget, and stored in the widget library.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-21793-7_1
HCI (11)
Keywords
Field
DocType
novel data mining,location-based service,web page,visual programming,suitable data transformation,user interface,web widget,new service,web service,data transformation,visual composition,user interaction
Static web page,Web design,Mashup,Web API,World Wide Web,Web page,Computer science,Visual programming language,Web modeling,Web service,Distributed computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.39
7
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Antonio Bottaro131.09
Enrico Marino220.39
Franco Milicchio3276.61
Alberto Paoluzzi49214.74
Maurizio Rosina520.39
Federico Spini640.79