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 Kaiser, Gail E. 哥伦比亚大学下一代软件开发组件技术该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： 从异构后端信息资源（例如配置管理和文档管理）高效生成 3D 虚拟世界的布局和内容； 随着多个用户（外部和环境内部）同时修改后端材质，平滑更新 3D 虚拟世界； 在不同的虚拟世界和“主题”之间无缝移动用户头像，以扩展到团队的团队和大量信息空间。 以前有关协作虚拟环境的工作要求框架“拥有”数据而不是从自治源中获取数据，硬连线特定的布局和主题来描述该数据的相对静态快照，并限制同时用户和团队的最大数量。 此外，虽然在用于程序理解的 2D 和 3D 软件可视化方面已经做了很多工作，并且在由地理分布的团队成员共享的非图形虚拟信息空间方面做了一些工作，但之前很少或根本没有关于让软件开发人员沉浸在一个环境中的工作。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。