Research on the Internet of Things (IoT) has devoted many efforts to technological aspects.
Little social and practical benefits have emerged so far. IoT devices, so-called smart objects …

After introducing the core constituents of mashups, the components, in this chapter we study
what it means to integrate different components into composite applications, that is …

This paper presents the definition of a visual language and its implementation with the
design of a visual interactive system for the collaborative management of Internet of Things …

Context: The emergence of the long-tail in the market of software applications is shifting the
role of end-users from mere consumers to becoming developers of applications addressing …

Objective The overall objective of the research work presented in this paper is to investigate
models, methods and architectures to replace fixed, pre-packaged applications with flexible …

This paper illustrates EFESTO, a mashup platform designed to enable end users to explore
information by creating interactive workspaces. Within a Web composition environment, end …

Live programming is a programming style in which the repetitive task of compiling and
running the software being programmed is managed automatically. This style can be a …

In the last years, the debate about the success or failure of Linked Data (LD) has been
growing. Despite the ever-increasing number of available ontologies and LD datasets, there …

Meta-design has been proposed as a model to design systems able to support End-User
Development (EUD). Meta-design means “design for designers.” Differently than in …

Despite the recent progresses in end-user development and particularly in mashup
application development, developing even simple mashups is still non-trivial and requires …