Prof. Dr. Thomas Kessel

The emerging Internet of Everything is a driving force for businesses to expose their processes as services to third parties to be integrated into their applications (e.g. the booking of a trip or requesting the quote for a complex product). To standardize the processes and related data, increasingly semantic web technologies are applied-leading to a shared conceptualization of the business domains and thus creating a linked data service ecosystem for domain-specific services. Although the communication on machine-level is standardized by using semantic web technologies, the integration of the user into the overall process is still a manual task: User Interfaces (UI) for collecting the input data for a process are built manually for multiple platforms and user groups. The claim of this paper is, that given a linked data service ecosystem, UIs can be modelled and automatically generated for integration into linked data applications. The paper presents an ontology-based, model-driven approach for modelling UI variants for automatically generating dialog-based applications, providing output understood by associated linked data services.

Michael Hitz, Thomas Kessel, Dennis Pfisterer. Automatic UI Generation for Aggregated Linked Data Applications by Using Sharable Application Ontologies. (Book chapter in preparation for publishing in „Communications in Computer and Information Science” (CCIS) , Springer), 2017