Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-2000
Publication Title
International Journal of Speech Technology
Volume
3
Issue
2
Pages
91-106
Publisher Name
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Abstract
Modern interactive services such as information and e-commerce services are becoming increasingly more flexible in the types of user interfaces they support. These interfaces incorporate automatic speech recognition and natural language understanding, and include graphical user interfaces on the desktop and web-based interfaces using applets and HTML forms. To what extent can the user interface software be decoupled from the service logic software (the code that defines the essential function of a service)? Decoupling of user interface from service logic directly impacts the flexibility of services, or, how easy they are to modify and extend. To explore these issues, we have developed Sisl, an architecture and domain-specific language for designing and implementing interactive services with multiple user interfaces. A key principle underlying Sisl is that all user interfaces to a service share the same service logic. Sisl provides a clean separation between the service logic and the This work was conducted while the author was at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies. software for a variety of interfaces, including Java applets, HTML pages, speech-based natural language dialogue, and telephone-based voice access. Sisl uses an event-based model of services that allows service providers to support interchangeable user interfaces (or add new ones) to a single consistent source of service logic and data. As part of a collaboration between research and development, Sisl is being used to prototype a new generation of call processing services for a Lucent Technologies switching product.
Identifier
1572-8110
Recommended Citation
T. Ball, C. Colby, P. Danielsen, L. J. Jagadeesan, R. Jagadeesan, K. Läufer, P. Mataga, and K. Rehor, Sisl: several interfaces, single logic, International Journal of Speech Technology, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 91-106, Jun. 2000.
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Copyright Statement
Copyright © 2000 Thomas Ball, Christopher P. Colby, Peter Danielsen, Lalita J. Jagadeesan, Radha Jagadeesan, Konstantin Läufer, Peter Mataga, and Kenneth Rehor
