A Software Toolkit for Web-Based Virtual Environments Based on a Shared Database
In Isaias, Karmakar, Rodrigues, Barbosa (eds), Proceedings of IADIS International Conference 2004. IADIS Press, 691-698 ISBN: 972-98947-5-2
8 Pages Posted: 10 Apr 2017
Date Written: May 10, 2004
Abstract
We propose a software toolkit for developing complex web-based user interfaces, incorporating such things as multi-user facilities, virtual environments (VEs), and interface agents. The toolkit is based on a novel software architecture that combines ideas from multi-agent platforms and user interface (UI) architectures. It provides a distributed shared database with publish-subscribe facilities. This enables UI components to observe the state and activities of any other components in the system easily. The system runs in a web-based environment. The toolkit is comprised of several programming and other specification languages, providing a complete suite of systems design languages. We illustrate the toolkit by means of a couple of examples.
Keywords: Virtual Environments, Software Architectures,Entity-Relationship model, Specification Languages
JEL Classification: L29, L63, L84, O39
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