HTF II - The Second International Workshop on Incorporating Hypertext Functionality Into Software Systems

This proceedings contains the 17 accepted position papers for the workshop, plus the abridged call for papers outlining the issues to be discussed. The papers are listed under the issue they best address.

The issues were introduced in the workshop's original call for papers.

Overview of Discussion Papers

The approaches addressed in this proceedings can be catogorized into three approaches: intra-application (or suite of applications) incorporation, extra- application incorporation, and data-oriented approach.

Oinas-Kukkonen discusses through an implementation how HTF can be incorporated into a suite of tools from single vendor, using CASE as an example domain. Oinas- Kukkonen and Kaipala discuss through an example what challenges await projects and organizations that participate the re-engineering of HTF into a software system within an application or suite of applications.

Anderson provides an extra-application approach for incorporating HTF into new software systems. Heath and Hall discuss the issues involved in providing extra-application HTF to external applications. Newcomb and Kimber both address the third approach of using the HyTime model to add HTF to legacy data.

Davalos addresses the use of HTF in business applications, thus providing one example on why to add HTF into applications. Selvin discusses using, and extending, some HTF to accomplish a particular kind of goal - in this case, modeling by teams.

Garrido and Oinas-Kukkonen discuss when should links be generated automatically as opposed to manually. Watters demonstrates the utility of automatically generated links, and discusses the intriguing possibility of processes as link endpoints. Rossi, Schwabe and Garrido address automated node and link generation, the nodes and links reflecting the inherent structure of the application.

Lopisteguy, Usandizaga and Filgueira tackle HTF both within an information system and external to an information system.

Ashman, Cawley, Davis and Chase discuss the use of distributed services in hypermedia systems, while Noll and Scacchi describe distributed hypertext services and propose changes into the current repository-oriented view of organizational data.

Nelson motivates the hyperizing of software systems. Bieber discusses what are the required skill for application developers to integrate hypertext support in their non- hypertext applications. Balasubramanian and Turoff discuss the benefits of hypertext functionality to the user interface design process.

Table of Contents

The position papers have been organised according to the seven issues to be discussed.

Participants

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