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Automating UI Generation by Model Composition R. E. Kurt Stirewalt Spencer Rugaber Computer Science and Engineering Dept. College of Computing Michigan State University Georgia Institute of Technology East Lansing, Michigan 48824 Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0280 Copyright 1998 IEEE. Published in the 13th Conference on Automated Soft- the underlying application functionality. The model-based ware Engineering (ASE’98) October 13-16, 1998 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Personal approach to interactive system development addresses this use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this ma- deficiency by decomposing UI design into the construction terial for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works of separate models, each of which is declaratively spec- for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component ified [5]. Once specified, automated tools integrate the of this work in other works, must be obtained from the IEEE. Contact: Hoes Lane/ models and generate an efficient system from them. The PO Box 1331/ Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331, USA. model-composition problem is the need to efficiently im- Abstract plement and automatically integrate interactive software Automated user-interface generation environments have from separate declarative models. This paper introduces been criticized for their failure to deliver rich and power- the model-composition problem and presents a solution. ful interactive applications