Design, construction, and application of a generic visual language generation environment

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 289-307

  Zhang, Kang ^a,b   Zhang, Da Qian ^c   Cao, Jiannong ^a,d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

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

^c Smart Graphics   (Canada)

^d HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Graph grammar; Language construction; Visual languages; Visual programming

Indexed keywords

VISUAL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES (VPL);

COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FILE EDITORS; GRAPH THEORY; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROGRAM COMPILERS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 0035309907     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.917521     Document Type: Article

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