Publication: A Meta-modeling based Approach for the Multi-Disciplinary Design of Web Educational Systems
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2009-09-01
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Graz University of Technology
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Multi-disciplinary teams might provide a multi-faceted perspective of web educational systems that integrates experience from different fields. Each expert has a view of the system and she uses domain specific languages in order
to express solutions to the problems she is concerned with. In this way, the
final system can be seen as a combination of a number of complementary views,
each of which focuses on problems of a different nature. However, such views are
expressed with different specification tools so that they have to be integrated
to produce a common design that is complete and consistent. Creating a common
language encompassing multi-disciplinary design views is a challenging endeavor
but it might impose a cognitive overload to each member of the group who is
exposed to unfamiliar concepts of other disciplines in her design view.
Alternatively, this paper describes an approach called MODUWEB that consists of
letting each designer use the tool she is proficient in for her design tasks and
then complementary design perspectives are integrated using meta-modeling
techniques. MODUWEB also includes a number of constraints and semantic rules
that guarantee the completeness and consistency of the resulting model.
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Model-driven development, Multi-disciplinary design, Educational design, Web design
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Journal of Universal Computer Science (2009). 15(7), pp. 1440 -1454