Interval scripts: A programming paradigm for interactive environments and agents

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-21

  Pinhanez, Claudio S ^a   Bobick, Aaron F ^b  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Interactive spaces; Programming paradigms; Programming with constraints; System architecture; Temporal reasoning; Ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; COMPLEX NETWORKS; TEMPORAL LOGIC; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

ALLEN'S INTERVAL ALGEBRA; CONSTRAINT PROPAGATION; INTERACTIVE ENVIRONMENTS; INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS; INTERACTIVE SPACES; PROGRAMMING PARADIGMS; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; TEMPORAL REASONING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 20844446790     PISSN: 16174909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-002-0209-4     Document Type: Article

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