document: Embedding MindMap as a service for user-driven composition of web applications The World Wide Web is evolving towards a very large distributed platform allowing ubiquitous access to a wide range of Web applications with minimal delay and no installation required . Such Web applications range from having users undertake simple tasks , such as filling a form , to more complex tasks including collaborative work , project management , and more generally , creating , consulting , annotating , and sharing Web content . However , users are lacking a simple but yet powerful mechanism to compose Web applications , similarly to what desktop environments allowed for decades using the file explorer paradigm and the desktop metaphor . Attempts have been made to adapt the desktop metaphor to the Web environment giving birth to Webtops ( Web desktops ) . It essentially consisted of embedding a desktop environment in a Web browser and provide access to various Web applications within the same User Interface . However , those attempts did not take into consideration to the radical differences between Web and desktop environments and applications . In this work , we introduce a new approach for Web application composition based on the mindmap metaphor . It allows browsing artifacts ( Web resources ) and enabling user-driven composition of their associated Web applications . Essentially , a mindmap is a graph of widgets representing artifacts created or used by Web applications and allow to list and launch all possible Web applications associated to each artifact . A tool has been developed to experiment the new metaphor and is provided as a service to be embedded in Web applications via a Web browser 's plug-in . We demonstrate in this paper three case studies regarding the DBLP Web site , Wikipedia and Google Picasa Web applications .
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