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Abstract

In recent years, advances in software tools have made it easier to analyze interactive system specifications, and the range of their possible behaviors. However, the effort involved in producing the specifications of the system is still substantial, and a difficulty exists regarding the specification of plausible behaviors on the part of the user. Recent trends in technology towards more mobile and distributed systems further exacerbates the issue, as contextual factors come in to play, and less structured, more opportunistic behavior on the part of the user makes purely task-based analysis difficult. In this paper we consider a resourced action approach to specification and analysis. In pursuing this approach we have two aims - firstly, to facilitate a resource-based analysis of user activity, allowing resources to be distributed across a number of artifacts, and secondly to consider within the analysis a wider range of plausible and opportunistic user behaviors without a heavy specification overhead, or requiring commitment to detailed user models.


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Author(s): Doherty G, Campos J, Harrison MD

Editor(s): Graham, T.C.N., Palanque, P.

Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)

Publication status: Published

Conference Name: Interactive Systems: Design, Specification and Verification. 15th International Workshop (DS-VIS)

Year of Conference: 2008

Pages: 194-207

ISSN: 0302-9743 (Print) 1611-3349 (Online)

Publisher: Springer

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70569-7_19

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-70569-7_19

Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item

Series Title: Lecture Notes In Computer Science

ISBN: 9783540705680


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