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VL
1997
IEEE
151views Visual Languages» more  VL 1997»
14 years 15 days ago
A Structured Interactive Workspace for a Visual Configuration Language
This paper shows how language technologies such as the automatic generation of parsers for analyzing user actions and visual parsing can be applied to build a flexible tool specia...
Jean-Yves Vion-Dury, François Pacull
VL
2008
IEEE
138views Visual Languages» more  VL 2008»
14 years 3 months ago
A case study of API redesign for improved usability
As software grows more complex, software developers’ productivity is increasingly defined by their ability to effectively reuse code. Even APIs (application programming interfac...
Jeffrey Stylos, Benjamin Graf, Daniela K. Busse, C...
CORR
2007
Springer
108views Education» more  CORR 2007»
13 years 9 months ago
Scuba Search : when selection meets innovation
— We proposed a new search heuristic using the scuba diving metaphor. This approach is based on the concept of evolvability and tends to exploit neutrality in fitness landscape....
Sébastien Vérel, Philippe Collard, M...
VL
1995
IEEE
14 years 15 days ago
Display-Based Problems in Spreadsheets: A Critical Incident and a Design Remedy
A critical incident is reported where a discretionary user needed to partition the spreadsheet grid into an arithmetic series of blocks and apply a function to each, but was unabl...
David G. Hendry
VL
2010
IEEE
261views Visual Languages» more  VL 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Euler Graph Transformations for Euler Diagram Layout
— Euler diagrams are frequently used for visualizing information about collections of objects and form an important component of various visual languages. Properties possessed by...
Peter Rodgers, Gem Stapleton, John Howse, Leishi Z...