PLACID: a planner for dynamically composing user interface services

Abstract

Dynamic Services Composition (DSC) aims at composing interactive\systems from a set of available services corresponding\to the available components. A component consists of a\Functional Core and/or of a User Interface (UI) respectively\providing computation and/or representation functions. In\software engineering, a part of the literature focuses on the\dynamic composition of computation services. Making the\hypothesis that UI services can also be composed leads to a\new research area in Human Computer Interaction: the dynamic\composition of UI services. This paper presents a planning algorithm that aims to solve the DSC problem. This algorithm produce the task model of the composed UI allowing the user to achieve his/her goal.