Component Technologies for Next-Generation Software Development Environments

下一代软件开发环境的组件技术

• 批准号: 9970790
• 负责人: Gail Kaiser
• 金额: $ 22.5万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-09-15 至 2003-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9970790&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Component; Technologies; Next; Generation; Software

9970790 Kaiser, Gail E. Columbia UniversityComponent Technologies for Next-Generation Software DevelopmentThis project furthers the development of components and frameworks for team software development environments by combining hypermedia, multi-user domain (MUD), and 3D visualization technologies, to achieve "software immersion". The Columbia researchers are investigating mechanisms for: Efficiently generating the layout and content of 3D virtual worlds from heterogeneous backend information resources (e.g., configuration management and document management); Smoothly updating the 3D virtual world as the backend materials are simultaneously modified by the multiple users (externally and from within the environment); Seamlessly moving user avatars among distinct virtual worlds and "themes" to scale up to teams of teams and large collections of information spaces. Previous work on collaborative virtual environments requires the framework to "own" the data rather than drawing from autonomous sources, hardwires a particular layout and theme depicting a relatively static snapshot of that data, and limits the maximum number of simultaneous users and teams. Further, while there has been much work on 2D and 3D software visualization for program understanding, and some work on non-graphic virtual information spaces shared by geographically distributed team members, there has been little or no prior work on immersing software development staff within a 2D or 3D virtual world intended to represent the software development artifacts and/or its development process.

9970790 作者：Gail E. 哥伦比亚大学下一代软件开发组件技术本项目通过结合超媒体、多用户域（MUD）和3D可视化技术，进一步开发用于团队软件开发环境的组件和框架，以实现“软件沉浸”。 哥伦比亚大学的研究人员正在研究以下机制：从异构的后端信息资源（例如，配置管理和文档管理）;当后端材料被多个用户同时修改（外部和来自环境内）时，平滑地更新3D虚拟世界;在不同的虚拟世界和“主题”之间无障碍地移动用户化身，以扩展到团队的团队和信息空间的大集合。 以前的工作协作虚拟环境需要的框架“拥有”的数据，而不是从自主的来源，硬连线一个特定的布局和主题描绘一个相对静态的快照，该数据，并限制了最大数量的同时用户和团队。 此外，虽然已经有很多关于用于程序理解的2D和3D软件可视化的工作，以及一些关于由地理上分布的团队成员共享的非图形虚拟信息空间的工作，但是很少或没有关于将软件开发人员沉浸在旨在表示软件开发工件和/或其开发过程的2D或3D虚拟世界中的先前工作。