Title :
Visual representation of procedural knowledge
Author :
Hartley, Roger ; Pfeiffer, Heather
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, NM, USA
Abstract :
Traditionally, knowledge representation (KR) languages have declarative semantics based on classical logic and have a concrete syntax that is textual. Conversely, programming languages (PL) have mainly procedural semantics and are represented in visual terms. Moreover, PLs can only represent procedures at a very low level. Our conceptual programming language (CPL) bridges this gap, while still retaining visual appeal. It has both the declarative semantics of a KR language and the procedural semantics of a PL. CPL is a visual language for expressing procedural knowledge explicitly as programs
Keywords :
knowledge representation; programming language semantics; visual languages; CPL; KR language; PLs; classical logic; conceptual programming language; concrete syntax; declarative semantics; knowledge representation languages; procedural knowledge representation; procedural semantics; programming languages; visual appeal; visual language; visual representation; visual terms; Books; Bridges; Character generation; Computer languages; Computer science; Concrete; Dairy products; Knowledge representation; Logic programming; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
Visual Languages, 2000. Proceedings. 2000 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0840-5
DOI :
10.1109/VL.2000.874353