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Sisl: Several Interfaces, Single Logic, Thomas Ball, Christopher P. Colby, Peter Danielsen, Lalita Jategaonkar Jagadeesan, Radhakrishnan Jagadeesan, Konstantin Laufer, Peter Mataga, Kenneth Rehor

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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 …