Tasks Models for Component Contextualization

This paper proposes a solution to take into account the emerging and evolving nature of users’ needs in software environments. This solution consists in giving the users the means to adapt these environments by integrating new tools. Many technical solutions exist for software components integration, but their use is limited to software development experts. One reason is that current dynamic integration approaches face a semantic problem: to finely integrate a tool in an activity, its future place in this activity must be clearly identified. In order to facilitate this comprehension and the dynamic integration of software components, we propose a new approach of component design and integration, inspired by previous work on task modelling.

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