Title :
A framework of a visual language with dynamic specification
Author :
Miyao, Jun´ichi ; Chang, Shi-Kuo
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Integrated Arts & Sci., Hiroshima Univ., Japan
Abstract :
The behavior of complex software may be changed depending on the external environment such as user profile, available resources, input data, time, and so on. Design of such dynamic software in conventional languages needs extra effort to keep consistency among behaviors for all states. We propose an object oriented visual language for dynamic software and its visualized specification with dynamics presentation. The language supports dynamic behavior according to both time-dependent and time-independent external states based on dynamic objects. In the visualized specification, we present uniform dynamics presentation for all elements in the language based on three concepts of snapshot, overlap and sweep
Keywords :
formal specification; object-oriented languages; visual languages; visual programming; complex software behavior; dynamic objects; dynamic specification; input data; object oriented visual language; overlap; snapshot; sweep; time; user profile; visual language; visualized specification; Animation; Art; Data structures; Data visualization; Database systems; Displays; Dynamic programming; Multimedia systems; Object oriented databases; Visual databases;
Conference_Titel :
Visual Languages, Proceedings., 11th IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Darmstadt
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7045-2
DOI :
10.1109/VL.1995.520802