This book gives the proceedings of a workshop on User Interface Management Systems and Environments held in June 1990. The main theme of the book is a review and evaluation of the Seeheim UIMS model first formulated six years ago and published in this series.

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I Invited Presentations, Discussions and Conclusions.- Invited Presentations.- 1. Critique of the Seeheim Model.- 2. The Reference Model of Computer Graphics.- 3. The Architectural Bases of Design Re-use.- Working Group Discussions.- 4. Concepts, Methods, Methodologies Working Group.- 5. Current Practice Working Group.- 6. Multi-media and Visual Programming.- 7. Toolkits, Environments and the Object Oriented Paradigm.- Workshop Conclusions.- 8. Conclusions.- II Concepts, Models and Methodologies.- 9. Some Comments on the Future of User Interface Tools.- 10. Modelling User Interface Software.- 11. GMENUS: An Ada Concurrent User Interface Management System.- 12. Usability Engineering and User Interface Management.- 13. Designing the Next Generation of UIMSs.- 14. Intelligent Interfaces and UIMS.- 15. Assembling a User Interface out of Communicating Processes.- III Current Practice.- 16. IUICE An Interactive User Interface Construction Environment.- 17. Dialogue Specification for Knowledge Based Systems.- 18. SYSECA's Experience in UIMS for Industrial Applications.- 19. The Growth of a MOSAIC.- 20. A Framework for Integrating UIMS and User Task Models in the Design of User Interfaces.- 21. PROMETHEUS: A System for Programming Graphical User Interfaces.- IV Visual Programming, Multi-Media and UI Generators.- 22. An Environment for User Interface Development Based on the ATN and Petri Nets Notations.- 23. Creating Interaction Primitives.- V Toolkits, Environments and the OO Paradigm.- 24. The Composite Object User Interface Architecture.- 25. An Overview of GINA the Generic Interactive Application.- 26. The Use of OPEN LOOK/Motif GUI Standards for Applications in Control Systems Design.- 27. The OO-AGES Model An Overview.- List of Participants.