Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for generic contextual floor plans. A computer-implemented method for providing a user interface for running business processes, wherein process data are handled in data objects by one or more service-oriented business applications, including enabling a generalized information architecture for presenting modeled-business situations, including work-roles, process instances, and business object instances for handing the data objects active in the plurality of business processes, enabling an interface generator for directly generating a user interface from the generalized information architecture, and enabling the user interface by the interface generator while identifying a particular instantiated business situation as a business context in the generalized information architecture to which the user interface provides the interface.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for context and action-based application design.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for ad hoc coordination actions in business processes. A computer-implemented method for implementing an ad-hoc coordination action framework, extending on a business process framework, includes enabling ad-hoc coordination actions as generic callable services in a work context, implementing the ad-hoc actions as templates defining state transitions between roles participating at the work context, and enabling the work context to track state transitions as a conversation thread.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for an activity browser. A computer system includes a user interface linked to a processor arranged to perform instructions in accordance with a business application stored in a memory, the business application including context code portions representing at least one context, the context representing a business situation, service interface code portions defining at least two interfaces between services and the context, each of the interfaces arranged for exchanging data from a parameter of the context and the service associated with the context, and user-interface code portions for outputting at the user interface data representing information about the context.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for interfacing with a user of a computer system. In one implementation, a method is provided that comprises providing a tabstrip controller to display different components of an application in a display, wherein in the display the components are displayed at once as a plurality of tabs in a tabstrip. Further, the method may include controlling the tabstrip to allow at least one tab to be removed from the tabstrip and, optionally, to be displayed in a separate display entity, e.g., a free-floating or docked window. Embodiments of the invention further relate to a user interface for interfacing a user with a computer system and to a computer system arranged to generate a user interface. Embodiments consistent with the invention also relate to a computer program product and an article of manufacture.

Abstract: A database management system and method manages a database storing a plurality of entities related to each other by a plurality of relations. A user interface interfaces with the database in a situation. A context modeler models a context representation according to the situation using a semantic net. The semantic net includes a subset of entities that are identified by the context modeler as being relevant to the situation. When the context representation is applied to the database, the database is adapted to operate according to the situation.

Abstract: A context modeler models a context representation and a method models a context representation. The context modeler models a context representation in an application. The context is represented in a current situation by at least one context entity that is included in at least one collection of references to a plurality of entities in a database in accordance with the situation. The context modeler includes an activation model for assigning an activation attribute to the at least one context entity indicating the importance of the at least one context entity in the current situation. The context modeler takes into account the activation attribute in modeling the context representation.

Abstract: A computer system includes a user interface. The user interface includes at least one control for inputting at least one search criterion for searching in a database. The user interface also includes a visual result interface for visually outputting the result, at least one control in the visual result interface for selecting at least one element of a result of the searching, and a visual selection interface for at least visually outputting the selection. The visual result interface and the visual selection interface are positioned beside each other. In addition, the computer system includes a processor device communicatively connected to the user interface and connectable to the database. The processor may execute instructions for searching the database with said at least one search criterion, outputting to the user interface a result of the searching, and outputting to the user interface the selection from the result.

Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for outputting data at, for example, a user-interface in a computer system. According to one aspect, a method may be provided that comprises receiving categorized data at the user-interface based on data from each of at least two computer programs. The categorized data may be categorized into at least two data categories. At the user-interface, data from the at least two computer programs which is categorized in one category is represented together, and separate from data categorized in another category.

Abstract: A visualization graph is provided on a computer by storing data corresponding to a plurality of entities having a particular type, wherein a semantic net includes the entities and wherein the entities are linked to each other by a plurality of relations. The visualization graph is provided in response to a query with respect to an entity selected from the plurality of entities, wherein the visualization graph includes a plurality of sectors representing the results of the query. Entities are allocated to a predetermined sector of the graph depending on their entity type.

Abstract: A visualization graph is provided on a computer. Data is stored corresponding to a plurality of entities, wherein a semantic net includes the entities and wherein the entities are linked to each other by a plurality of relations. In response to a query with respect to an entity selected from the plurality of entities, a visualization graph representing the results of the query is provided. Entities are selected from the plurality of entities having at least one common relation and storing the selected entities as a plurality of groups.

Abstract: A visualization graph is provided on a computer. Data corresponding to a plurality of entities is stored, wherein a semantic net includes the entities and wherein the entities are linked to each other by a plurality of relations. In response to a query with respect to an entity selected from the plurality of entities, providing a visualization graph representing the results of the query, representing a plurality of entities having a common relation as a first node on the visualization graph. In response to a predetermined stimulus causing the entities comprised at the first node to be displayed, and in response to a further predetermined stimulus causing the graph to restructure so that the node replaces the displayed entities.

Abstract: A visualization graph is provided on a computer by storing data corresponding to a plurality of entities and/or nodes, wherein a semantic net includes the entities and/or nodes and wherein the entities and/or nodes are linked to each other by a plurality of relations. A query is generated and performed on the data. Data is output in the form of a visualization graph representing the results of the query, wherein the graph has a focus entity or node defined by a user or the query. Context information is used to determine at least one entity and/or node to be output in the results that is indirectly related to the focus entity or node.

Abstract: A computer system includes a user interface, which includes a display device for displaying a graphical program interface. The graphical program interface includes one or more controls for assigning at least one attribute value to an attribute of an object. The graphical program interface also includes a current attribute values interface in which attribute values assigned to the object are displayed and an assignable attribute values interface in which a limited set of possible values of at least one of the attributes are shown. At least one of the current attribute values interface and assignable attribute values interface includes a value select control for selecting at least one of the possible values and assigning this selected value to the object attribute.

Abstract: Systems and techniques to segment participants in an enterprise. In general, in one implementation, a method includes profiling participants in an enterprise according to characteristics of the participants, receiving identification of a domain that is associated with a first taxonomy, receiving identification of a specification identifying one or more of the characteristics associated with the first taxonomy, and segmenting the profiled participants into a subgroup by matching the characteristics of the participants with the domain and the specification. The characteristics can be associated with taxonomies according to the subject of the taxonomies.

Abstract: Systems and techniques to facilitate construction of software applications may use patterns that represent generic processes, objects, user interfaces, and content. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes identifying requirements for a desired application and identifying pattern types corresponding to the identified requirements. The pattern types may be selected from process patterns, user interface patterns, and generic object patterns. Patterns that best match the identified requirements may be selected from a set of available patterns, and the selected patterns may be configured according to the identified requirements to produce an application.

Abstract: A graphical user interface includes a graphical user interface, which includes an item interface in which at least two items can be listed. In an expanded state, the item interface has a collapse control for bringing the item interface in a collapsed state in which the dimensions of the item interface are partially reduced and at least some of the items are not visible. In a collapsed state, the item interface has a expand control for bringing the item interface into the expanded state.

Abstract: A computer system includes a user-interface. The user-interface includes a graphical program interface with one or more input controls. The input controls are arranged for inputting data into the computer system. The graphical program interface also includes a graphical selection interface. The graphical selection interface includes one or more select controls that are arranged for selecting data suitable to be inputted by selected input controls and for inputting the selected data in the selected input control as input data.

Abstract: Systems and techniques to develop and execute a composite application may include an application framework. An application framework may include an object access layer, a service layer, and a user interface layer. The object access layer may be operable to exchange data with a plurality of enterprise base systems and to present the data to a composite application through a uniform interface. The service layer may be operable to provide services to the composite application, and the user interface layer may be operable to provide user interface patterns that facilitate information exchange between the composite application and a user.

Abstract: Systems and techniques to facilitate collaborative development of product definitions allow convenient and efficient identification and evaluation of product innovation ideas. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes receiving product innovation ideas via a network and storing the product innovation ideas. The stored product innovation ideas are displayed for review by a user, and the user may send an indication via the network of one or more selected product innovation ideas. Web-based collaboration among an evaluation team comprising a plurality of members provides a mechanism for evaluating the at least one user-selected product innovation idea.