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Enduser-Initiative Application Development based on Architecture of a Model, UI and Components Takeshi CHUSHO, Naoyuki KONDA and Tomoaki IWATA Department of Computer Science, Meiji University 1-1-1 Higashimita, Tama-ku, Kawasaki 214-8571, Japan e-mail : chusho@cs.meiji.ac.jp Abstract 1. Introduction Recently, computer networks for information Explosive increase in end-user computing on systems are rapidly spreading on trends of the In- distributed systems requires that end-users develop ternet and intranets. An increasing number of un- application software by themselves. One solution trained end-users began interacting with comput- is given as a formula of “a domain model a ers. Then new software paradigms for such new computation model.” This formula implies that one fields with explosive increase in application soft- task in a domain model of cooperative work corre- ware are required. sponds to one object in a computation model based These end-users began using application pack- on an object-oriented model. Application develop- ages not only for their individual task, but also for ment environment, M-base1, supports this formula their cooperative work such as workflow systems for cooperative systems such as groupware and and groupware[13]. When these application pack- workflow systems. The application architecture is ages can not satisfy such end-users, they must cus- fixed as composed of a model, a user interface and tomize these packages or find new ones. Finally, components. At the first stage, the system behav- if there