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Inspired by: FP7 » New visual progrmamming platform development

version: 1 / created: 2009-11-14
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Originally submitted by: Martin Fatun
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Source of inspiration

European Commission Framework Programme for RTD (FP7)

Theme/activity of inspiration

Theme 3 - ICT - Information & communication technologies

Sub-theme/area of inspiration

Pervasive and trusted network and service infrastructure

Optional reference/s to FP7 project/s

Use the following format: Project Acronym (Project Reference No.). Use commas if more than one project is associated to this Wild Card, for example: ALFA-BIRD (213266), SAFAR (213374), LAPCAT-II (211485)

FAST (Project Reference: 216048)

Signal's headline

(max. 9 words)

New visual progrmamming platform development

Signal's description

(approx. 150 words)

Please describe the Weak Signal (approx. 150 words)

The main objective of the project FAST (Fast and Advanced Storyboard Tools) is to create a new a visual programming environment that will facilitate the development of complex front-end gadgets, involving execution of relatively complex business processes that rely on back-end Semantic Web Services. The approach adopted will be user-centric rather than program-centric: instead of first building programs that orchestrate available Semantic Web Services and then try to figure out how to implement interaction with the users at given points of the process execution flow, programmers will start from the front-end gadgets that the user will see and interact with, and then, afterwards, they will visually establish the connection to back-end Web Services going through process execution flows if necessary. The way programmers will visually establish this connection will follow an approach similar to what sequence diagrams in UML look like. The FAST project believes that this new user-oriented approach is feasible and that it will overpass limitations of current business process engines approaches. In this approach, programmers will visually manage and connect front-end gadgets, screen-flow resources and back-end services.

Keywords

visual programming, semantic web services, user oriented approsch, storyboard tools

Signal's first apperance

2005-now

Progress: 31.25% WWI-WE Version: 1
0	mandatory questions pending
19	questions total
5	questions answered
5	questions completed
14	questions pending