The Role of Graphics in Parallel Program Development

Journal of Visual Languages and Computing

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 215-243

  Zhang, Kang ^a   Hintz, Tom ^b   Ma, Xianwu ^c  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c Fujitsu Australia Limited   (Australia)

Author keywords

Parallel programming, visual programming, program visualisation, graph models, debugging.

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000453104     PISSN: 1045926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jvlc.1998.0109     Document Type: Article

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