A constraints based layout management system.

Unlike Cassowary: ALM discusses how to make constraint development sensible to the interface designer. It provides a grammar of visual block layouts to the underlying constraints and how those constraints might be visualized to see errors ahead of time.

Papers

Many of these were dead and had to be pulled out of awkward places.

TODO link not implemented: => files/i9eb6d74f5504cd444dfd933754c2408c24f5fa0824d0a65eadbf622d5c11c0e6.pdf Christof Lutteroth, Gerald Weber. User Interface Layout with Ordinal and Linear Constraints. In: Proceedings of the Seventh Australasian User Interface Conference (AUIC 2006), Hobart, TAS, Australia, January 2006.
• The Auckland Layout Editor: An improved GUI layout specification process
• Christof Lutteroth, Gerald Weber. Modular Specification of GUI Layout Using Constraints. In: Proceedings of ASWEC 2008 - 19th Australian Conference on Software Engineering, IEEE Press, 2008.

Christof Lutteroth, Robert Strandh, Gerald Weber. Optimal GUI Layout as a Problem of Linear Programming. Technical Report UoA-SE-2007-6, Software Engi

TODO link not implemented: => files/8975696fdaf4993bea7cfd4e82ea061802404316ab317d59b16a9a2d93ec8c65 Christof Lutteroth, Robert Strandh, Gerald Weber. Domain Specific High-Level Constraints for User Interface Layout. Constraints, 13(3), 2008.
• Christof Lutteroth. Automated Reverse Engineering of Hard-Coded GUI Layouts. In: Proceedings of the 9th Australasian User Interface Conference (AUIC 2008), 2008.

Related papers

Not linked from the origin site but found and are interesting

• Comparison study between grid bags (like Miglayout) to Auckland Layout Manager
• Evaluation of using ALM to modify GUIs and a noodle graph system to connect CORBA-like modules to behaviors
• Paper which is just a restatement of ALM