Welcome to the Dissertation Hierarchical User Interface Component Architecture (HUICA) of computer scientist Dr. Ralf S. Engelschall.

This Dissertation was written for the scientific degree of Doctor rerum naturalium. It was submitted to the Department of Computer Science of University of Augsburg on 2018-08-14. It was then assessed by Prof. Dr. Alexander Knapp and Prof. Dr. Bernhard Bauer with the honor magna cum laude, defended on 2018-12-11 and finally published on 2018-12-18.

For a full 83-minute overview to the Hierarchical User Interface Component Architecture (HUICA), you can watch the corresponding video series of the Dissertation. It allows you to understand most of HUICA without having to read through the whole Dissertation.

If you just want an overview of the heart of HUICA, without any prolog and epilog, just watch the single 31-minute video HUICA Overview 3/4 instead. It covers just the central Chapter 6 (Solution) of the Dissertation.

In addition to the regular print version, the Disseration is also available as an online viewable, browsable and searchable electronic version for convenient online reading and page deep-linking.

This electronic version is provided under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivates 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0) license, which allows you to copy and redistribute it, as long as you follow the attribution and no-derivatives constraints.