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Alty, James L. and McKell, P. (1986): Application Modelling in a User Interface Management System. In: Harrison, Michael D. and Monk, Andrew (eds.) Proceedings of the Second Conference of the British Computer Society Human Computer Interaction Specialist Group - People and Computers II August 23-26, 1986, University of York, UK. pp. 319-335.

“The role of the Application Model (or Application Expert) in a User Interface Management System is discussed. It is postulated that it should represent an expert's view of the interface and that all other user related information should be housed in a separate User Model. By this approach the Application Model acts as an anchor point in the design of an Interface System. The Model is considered to have two main functions, as a custodian to the application and as a source of guidance and advice to the User Model. An outline architecture for an Application Model for command-driven systems is developed using UNIX as an example application. The output of user error log files is used to identify appropriate modules in an Application Model which, because of the general nature of UNIX ought to be applicable to other command-driven situations. A control strategy is developed for a blackboard-like approach and some examples or error detection by the Application Model are given. The work will now be applied to a more specific application used by Petroleum Engineers.”

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