MaramaTatau: Extending a domain specific visual language meta tool with a declarative constraint mechanism

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 95-103

  Liu, Na ^a   Hosking, John ^a   Grundy, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Visual constraint language; Visual language metatool

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); MACHINE DESIGN; QUERY LANGUAGES; SPECIFICATIONS;

CASE STUDIES; COMMON PROBLEMS; CONSTRAINT MECHANISMS; CONVENTIONAL CODES; DOMAIN SPECIFICS; EVENT HANDLERS; EXPRESSIVE POWERS; META TOOLS; VISUAL CONSTRAINT LANGUAGE; VISUAL LANGUAGE METATOOL; VISUAL LANGUAGE TOOLS; VISUAL TOOLS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 47949085756     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2007.37     Document Type: Conference Paper

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