STATECHART GENERATION USING FRAMES

摘要

A Statechart (400) for management of an interaction is generated automatically from a frame (100, 200, 304) that describes the interaction by extracting a data model (300) and a set of goals (302) from the frame and then generating a Statechart (400) from the data model (300) and the set of goals (302). The data model (300) includes a set of data fields (306, 308) to be completed during the interaction. Procedural logic (206, 208) is extracted from the frame and used to annotate the Statechart with, for example, initial and final rules, prompts and grammar (502-512). The Statechart (400) may be stored for future use or editing, or used to manage a current interaction.