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My thesis investigates the collaboration and evolution of micro controller networks. In the thesis, I have developed a framework for flexibly connecting embedded systems, called microsynergy. The framework gives to users the ability unify a network of micro controller-based devices into logically defined collaborative networks. It establishes a communication infrastructure across a variety of networking protocols and allows dynamic reconfiguration of the micro controller network by means of a visual language. The infrastructure includes a mechanism for the construction and/or reuse of stateful coordination logic that manages the inter-communication of the network enabled devices and software components to create new functionalities and behaviours from a set of predefined software and hardware components. microsynergy looks at only a few of the issues, such as how to integrate devices with minimal impact on the code base, integrating devices of various protocols, building easy to understand and modifiable networks of devices that can act as a unified system. It include the design, implementation and analysis, through an informal user study, of a specific implementation of visual programming paradigm and its relation to collaborative networks.

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M.Com. (Informatics) / In this study the issue on User Interface Management Systems (UIMSs) is addressed. Specific attention is given to the design principles regarding development of user interface management systems that allow the creation of graphical user interfaces for existing text-oriented command-line applications. As an introduction the concept of user interface management systems is discussed and a working and formal definition is derived. Thereafter a survey is discussed concerning user interface tools. A user interface management system architecture is proposed; \he planning, design and development aspects of user interface management systems are addressed, and the effect of human factors in the design of a user interface management system is discussed. Attention is also given to various interaction and dialogue models ...

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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Florida, 2001. / Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains x, 81 p.; also contains graphics. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 80).

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2002. / Title from title page screen (viewed Sept. 6, 2002). Thesis advisor: Michael Langston. Document formatted into pages (vi, 119 pages). Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 43-46).

Thesis (M.S. in Computer Science)--Washington State University. / Includes bibliographical references.