sle2014/keynote1

SLE 2014 keynote:
From Language Engineering to Viewpoint Engineering

Colin Atkinson

• URL: https://www.sleconf.org/2014/Invited.html
• T5H: Usability
  • The keynote’s thesis is stakeholder-facing “viewpoints” that tailor information representation and interaction to user goals and capabilities.
• T4A: Workbenches
  • It calls for foundations and (implicitly) tool support for engineering viewpoints (languages + context + interaction services) efficiently.
• T4F: Visualisation
  • View-oriented engineering foregrounds presentation/visualisation choices (what information is shown/elided and how it is rendered).
• T1D: Composition
  • “Viewpoints” are defined as augmentations over language definitions plus contextual and interaction layers—i.e., a structured composition of concerns.

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