Visualizing and interacting with hypermedia-based process-centric enterprise models

Abstract

Interoperability and cross-fertilization of multiple hypermedia domains are relatively new concerns to the open hypermedia and structural computing community. Recent work in this area has explored integrated data models and component-based structural service architectures. This paper focuses on the user interface aspects relating to client applications of the structural services. It presents an integrative design of a graphical hypermedia user interface for hypermedia-based process-centric enterprise models. An enterprise model covers various important perspectives of an enterprise (such as processes, information, organization, and systems). In this paper, examples are given to show that these perspectives are presented better using a mixture of hypermedia structures found in several hypermedia domains. The visualization and interaction design for such hypermedia-based enterprise models integrates many features found in navigational, spatial, taxonomic, workflow and cooperative hypertext domains. A use case is provided to show that client applications based on this design allow users to see and interact with an enterprise model from multiple perspectives. In addition, some` initial user experience is also reported.