Title
Hypercharts: Extended Statecharts to Support Hypermedia Specification
Abstract
This paper introduces hypercharts, a novel and effective notation that extends the well-known statechart formalism to make it suitable for the specification of temporal and information synchronization requirements of hypermedia applications. Three new definitions are added: timed history, timed transitions, and a set of synchronization mechanisms. The proposed extensions are based on the major characteristics of some Petri net-based multimedia models, and have their semantics described in terms of conventional statechart models. Therefore, any hyperchart construction can be transformed into a statechart that exhibits the desired behavior, giving hyperchart models the same semantic behavior as statecharts. The new constructs are illustrated using a case study based on a hypermedia-modeling example.
Year
DOI
Venue
1997
10.1109/32.748917
IEEE Trans. Software Eng.
Keywords
DocType
Volume
extended statecharts,petri net-based multimedia model,new construct,hypermedia application,support hypermedia specification,multimedia model,major characteristic,hyperchart construction,synchronization mechanism,conventional statechart model,information synchronization requirement,effective model,hyperchart model,proposed extension,well-known statechart formalism,new definition,hypermedia specification,semantic behavior,petri net,information retrieval,synchronisation,petri nets,formal specification,history,navigation,automata
Conference
25
Issue
ISSN
ISBN
1
0098-5589
0-8186-8126-8
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
19
1.24
11
Authors
5