Using extended positional grammars to develop visual modeling languages

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 27, Issue , 2002, Pages 201-208

  Costagliola, Gennaro ^a   Deufemia, Vincenzo ^a   Ferrucci, Filomena ^a   Gravino, Carmine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

automatic generation of visual programming environments; extended positional grammars; formal specifications; statecharts; visual languages

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC GENERATION; EXTENDED POSITIONAL GRAMMARS; FORMAL SPECIFICATION; STATECHARTS; VISUAL LANGUAGE; VISUAL PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; SPECIFICATIONS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 77953784174     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/568760.568795     Document Type: Conference Paper

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