Addressing the scalability problem in visual programming through containment, zooming and fisheyeing

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn 4, Issue , 1998, Pages 189-202

  Citrin, Wayne ^a   Hall, Richard ^a   Santiago, Carlos ^a   Zorn, Benjamin ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES;

SCALABILITY; VISUAL IMPERATIVE PROGRAMMING; VISUAL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0031629689     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.1998.682192     Document Type: Conference Paper

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