There is a range of modelling notations, both textual and diagrammatic, whose semantics are based on first-order predicate logic. This paper presents a visual framework for organ...
This study examines the comprehension and modification by novices of programs written with taskspecific and non-task-specific constructs. Teachers who write programs for use in th...
We merge the Pictorial Computing Laboratory (PCL) approach to WIMP interaction with the Interaction Locus approach to structuring visual spaces as a step toward the definition of ...
Augusto Celentano, Daniela Fogli, Piero Mussio, Fa...
Research into the cognitive aspects of programming originated in the study of professional programmers (whether experts or students). Even “end-user” programmers in previous s...
To help improve the reliability of spreadsheets created by end users, we are working to allow users to communicate the purpose and other underlying information about their spreads...
Laura Beckwith, Margaret M. Burnett, Curtis R. Coo...
We have been working on a unit system for end-user spreadsheets that is based on the concrete notion of units of the abstract concept of types. In previous work, we defined such ...
Adoptable, high performing, large scale ontologies that can be extended to support multi-media play a crucial role in building effective content and knowledge management systems a...
This paper discusses the processing of negative verbal forms in Oriya in a deterministic Finite State Automaton. A morphologically agglutinative language like Oriya has ‘phrasal...
The Web has emerged as a huge information repository that can be used for various knowledge based applications, an important one being Question Answering (QA). The paper discusses...
We report in this short document the results of a Regional European project carried out on Spanish, Catalan, Occitan and French whose aim is to design a lexical knowledge base whe...
Ana Fernandez, Gloria Vazquez, Patrick Saint-Dizie...