The PCG: An Empirical Study

Journal of Visual Languages and Computing

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 203-216

  Stankovic, Nenad ^a   Kranzlmüller, Dieter ^b   Zhang, Kang ^c  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^c The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

VPL II.A.1: concurrent languages; VPL VI.D.1: usability studies; VPL: visual programming languages

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005937295     PISSN: 1045926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jvlc.2000.0189     Document Type: Article

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