Formal Pattern Specifications to Facilitate Semi-automated User Interface Generation

Engel, Jürgen; Märtin, Christian; Herdin, Christian; Forbrig, Peter

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-39232-0_34

“…Our approach is similar to that of Engel et al who store the information required for a pattern transformation within the implementation property of PLML [Engel et al 2011;Engel et al 2013]. We introduce so called settings into the implementation property.…”

Section: Plml-based Pattern Variationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Engel et al define a configuration for each context of a pattern [Engel et al 2013]. We match this aspect as well by introducing specific settings for each supported overt network protocol.…”

Section: Plml-based Pattern Variationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…However, our approach centers all modeling aspects on the extended model thereby keeping a tight cohesion across these interrelated concerns and maintaining its focus on the data-driven workloads of the generated interfaces. Also, in our approach, the application templates (Section 4) serve as a form of pre-defined Abstract User Interfaces (AUIs) [16], and therefore alleviate unnecessary burden from the system modeler while still addressing the stereotyped interactions of search, view, and edit as needed by our target use cases. Our approach constructs the concrete interfaces from these application templates through the heuristics and annotations described in Section 3.…”

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“…In addition, we present the idea of pattern variation. Pattern variation is based on pattern transformation [Engel et al 2011;Engel et al 2013], which allows authors and developers to alter the existing context of a pattern. For instance, a desktop browser interface pattern can be transformed to a user interface pattern for mobile devices and vice versa, i.e.…”

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Zander,

Fechner

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Network covert channels are used to hide communication inside network protocols. Within the last decades, various techniques for covert channels arose. We surveyed and analyzed 109 techniques developed between 1987 and 2013 and show that these techniques can be reduced to only 11 different patterns. Moreover, the majority (69.7%) of techniques can be categorized in only four different patterns, i.e. most of the techniques we surveyed are very similar. We represent the patterns in a hierarchical catalog using a pattern language. Our pattern catalog will serve as a base for future covert channel novelty evaluation. Furthermore, we apply the concept of pattern variations to network covert channels. With pattern variations, the context of a pattern can change. For example, a channel developed for IPv4 can automatically be adapted to other network protocols. We also propose the pattern-based covert channel optimizations pattern hopping and pattern combination. Finally, we lay the foundation for pattern-based countermeasures: While many current countermeasures were developed for specific channels, a pattern-oriented approach allows to apply one countermeasure to multiple channels. Hence, future countermeasure development can focus on patterns, and the development of real-world protection against covert channels is greatly simplified.

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Formal Pattern Specifications to Facilitate Semi-automated User Interface Generation

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