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VISUAL LANGUAGES AND APPLICATIONS LANGUAGES AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS Series Editor: Shi-Kuo Chang University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Knowledge Systems Institute Skokie, Illinois 'Series was formerly entitled MANAGEMENT AND INFORMA TION SYSTEMS LANGUAGES FOR AUTOMATION Edited by Shi-Kuo Chang MANAGEMENT AND OFFICE INFORMATION SYSTEMS Edited by Shi-Kuo Chang VISUAL LANGUAGES Edited by Shi-Kuo Chang, Tadao Ichikawa, and Panos A. Ligomenides VISUAL LANGUAGES AND APPLICATIONS Edited by Tadao Ichikawa, Erland Jungert, and Robert R. Korfhage VISUAL LANGUAGES AND VISUAL PROGRAMMING Edited by Shi-Kuo Chang A Continuation Order Plan is available for this series. A continuation order will bring delivery of each new volume immediately upon publication. Volumes are billed only upon actual shipment. For further informa tion please contact the publisher. VISUAL LANGUAGES AND APPLICATIONS Edited by Tadao Ichikawa Hiroshima University Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan J Erland ungert Swedish Deftnce Research Establishment LinkOping, Sweden and Robert R. Korfhage University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania PLENUM PRESS. NEW YORK AND LONDON Library of Congress Cataloglng-In-Publlcatlon Data Visual languages and applications I edited by Tadao Ichikawa, Erland ~ungert, and Robert R. Korfhage. p. ca. -- (Languages and Information systems) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN-J3: 978-1-4612-7871-9 e-ISBN-J3: 978-1-4613-0569-9 001: 10 .1007/978-1-4613-0569-9 1. Visual program.lng languages (Computer science) 2. Visual programming (Computer sclence) I. Ichikawa, Tadao. II. ~ungert, Erland. III. Korfhage, Robert R. IV. Series. QA7S.S5.V56 1990 00S.S'S--dc20 90-35433 CIP © 1990 Plenum Press, New York A Division of Plenum Publishing Corporation 233 Spring Street, New York, N.Y. 10013 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1s t edition 1990 All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfllming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher CONTRIBUTORS ALLEN L. AMBLER • Department <if Computer Science, University <if Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045 ENRICO BARICHELLA • GMSVP-Gruppo Medico Sistemistico di Via Pace, Milan, Italy MAURIZIO BERETTA. GMSVP-Gruppo Medico Sistemistico di Via Pace, Milan, Italy DAVE BRIDGELAND • Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, Austin, Texas 78701 SHI-KUO CHANG • Department <if Computer Science, University <if Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260 WILFRED CHEN • Computer Science Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 DONALD B. CROUCH • Department <if Computer Science, University <if Minnesota-Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota 55812 NICOLA DIOGUARDI • Institute <if Internal Medicine, University <if Milan, Milan, Italy ROBERT DUISBERG • Computer Research Laboratory, Tektronix, Inc., Seattle, Washington, Present affiliation: School <if Music, University <if Washington, Seattle, Washington 98191 JOHN FIELD • Computer Science Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 MICHAEL L. GRAF • MCC Sqfiware Technology Program and NCR Corporation, Austin, Texas 78759 ESA HELT TULA • Department <if Computer Scimce, University <if Tampere, S-F33101, Tampere, Finland M. HIRAKAWA • Faculty <if Engineering, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 724, Japan CHARLES E. HUGHES • Computer Science Department, University <if Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816 AULIKKI HYRSKYKARI • Department <if Computer Science, University <if Tampere, S-F33101, Tampere, Finland T. ICHIKAWA. Faculty <if Engineering, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 724, Japan ERLAND JUNGERT • Swedish Difense Research Establishment, S-58111 Linkiiping, Sweden ROBERT R. KORFHAGE • Department <if Information Science, University <if Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260 DEXTER KOZEN • Computer Science Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 TIMOTHY C. LETHBRIDGE • Department <if Computer Science, University <if Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada KIN 6N5 KAZUO MATSUMURA. Systems & Soljtware Engineering Laboratory, Toshiba Corporation, Kawasaki 210, Japan FANYA S. MONTALVO. DEC Cambridge Research Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 J. MICHAEL MOSHELL • Computer Science Department, University <if Central Florida, Orl.'lTlfio, Florida 32816 v vi CONTRIBUTORS MARK A. MUSEN • Medical Computer Science Group, Knowledge Systems Laboratory, Stanford Universiry School d Medicine, Stanford, California 94305-5479 PIERO MUSSIO • Department d Physics, Universiry d Milan, Milan, Itary MARCO PADULA. CNR-SIAM, Milan, Itary MAURIZIO PIETROGRANDE • Institute d Internal Medicine, Universiry d Milan, Milan, Itary MARCO PROTT! • Department d Physics, Universiry d Milan, Milan, Itary WILLIAM PUGH • Computer Science Department, Cornell Universiry, Ithaca, New York 14853 KARI-JOUKO RAIHA • Department d Computer Science, Universiry d Tampere, Tampere, Finland DAVID N. SMITH • IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 M. TANAKA • Faculry d Engineering, Hiroshima Universiry, Higashi-Hiroshima 724, Japan SHUICHI TAYAMA • Design Center, Toshiba Corporation, Tokyo 105, Japan TIM TEITELBAUM • Computer Science Department, Cornell Universiry, Ithaca, New York 14853 BRAD VANDER ZANDEN • Computer Science Department, Cornell Universiry, Ithaca, New York 14853 COLIN WARE. School d Computer Science, Universiry of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada E3B 5A3 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 PART I THEORY l. DIAGRAM UNDERSTANDING: THE SYMBOLIC DESCRIP TIONS BEHIND THE SCENES Fanya S. Montalvo 5 PART II DESIGN SYSTEMS 2. THE INTERFACE CONSTRUCTION SET David N. Smith 31 3. A VISUAL ENVIRONMENT FOR THE DESIGN OF DIS TRIBUTED SYSTEMS Michael L. Graf 53 4. GENERATION OF VISUAL LANGUAGES FOR DEVELOPMENT OF KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS Mark A. Musen 69 PART III VISUAL PROGRAMMING 5. VISUAL MAN-MACHINE INTERFACE FOR PROGRAM DESIGN AND PRODUCTION Kazuo Matsumura and Shuichi Tayama 99 6. HI-VISUAL ICONIC PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT M. Hirakawa, M. Tanaka, and T. Ichikawa 121 7. ALEX-AN ALEXICAL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE Dexter Kazen, Tim Teitelbaum, Wilfred Chen, John Field, William Pugh, and Brad Vander Zanden 147 PART IV ALGORITHM ANIMATION B. VISUAL PROGRAMMING OF PROGRAM VISUALIZATIONS: A GESTURAL INTERFACE FOR ANIMATING ALGORITHMS Robert Duuberg 161 ix x CONTENTS 9. PRINCIPLES OF ALADDIN AND OTHER ALGORITHM ANIMA TION SYSTEMS Esa Helttula, Aulikki Hyrskykari, and Kari-Jouko Riiihii 175 PART V SIMULATION ANIMATION 10. SIMULACRUM: A SYSTEM BEHAVIOR EXAMPLE EDITOR Dave Bridgeland 191 11. ACTION GRAPHICS: A SPREADSHEET-BASED LANGUAGE FOR ANIMATED SIMULATION Charles E. Hughes and J. Michael Moshell 203 12. ANIMATION USING BEHAVIOR FUNCTIONS Timothy C. Lethbridge and Colin Ware 237 PART VI APPLICATIONS 13. A VISUAL ENVIRONMENT FOR LIVER SIMULATION STUDIES Enrico Barichella, Mauri;:.io Beretta, Nicola Dioguardi, Piero Mussio, Marco Padula, Mauri;:.io Pietrogrande, and Marco Protti 255 14. A SPATIAL KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURE FOR VISUAL INFOR MATION SYSTEMS Shi-Kuo Chang and Erland Jungert 277 15. THE USE OF VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL APPLICATIONS Donald B. Crouch and Robert R. Korfhage 305 16. GENERALIZING THE SHEET LANGUAGE PARADIGM Allen L. Ambler 327 Epilogue 347 INDEX 349 VISUAL LANGUAGES AND APPLICATIONS
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