Service composition for non-programmers: Prospects, problems, and design recommendations

Proceedings - 8th IEEE European Conference on Web Services, ECOWS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 123-130

  Namoun, Abdallah ^a   Nestler, Tobias ^b   De Angeli, Antonella ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b SAP RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Design recommendations; Lightweight service composition; Usability; User requirements

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION OF SERVICES; DESIGN RECOMMENDATIONS; END USERS; LIGHT-WEIGHT SERVICE; SERVICE COMPOSITIONS; USABILITY; USABILITY PROBLEMS; USER CENTERED DESIGNS; USER REQUIREMENTS; USER RESEARCH; USER STUDY;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DESIGN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION SERVICES; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA);

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 79951834275     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECOWS.2010.17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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