Visual Languages and Applications

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Tadao Ichikawa, Erland Jungert, Robert R. Korfhage

      Pages 1-1

3. Theory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 3-3

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   2. Diagram Understanding

      • Fanya S. Montalvo

      Pages 5-27

4. Design Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29

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   2. The Interface Construction Set

      • David N. Smith

      Pages 31-51

   3. A Visual Environment for the Design of Distributed Systems

      • Michael L. Graf

      Pages 53-67

   4. Generation of Visual Languages for Development of Knowledge-Based Systems

      • Mark A. Musen

      Pages 69-95

5. Visual Programming

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97

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   2. Visual Man-Machine Interface for Program Design and Production

      • Kazuo Matsumura, Shuichi Tayama

      Pages 99-119

   3. hi-visual Iconic Programming Environment

      • M. Hirakawa, M. Tanaka, T. Ichikawa

      Pages 121-145

   4. alex—An Alexical Programming Language

      • Dexter Kozen, Tim Teitelbaum, Wilfred Chen, John Field, William Pugh, Brad Vander Zanden

      Pages 147-158

6. Algorithm Animation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159

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   2. Visual Programming of Program Visualizations

      • Robert Duisberg

      Pages 161-173

   3. Principles of Aladdin and Other Algorithm Animation Systems

      • Esa Helttula, Aulikki Hyrskykari, Kari-Jouko Räihä

      Pages 175-187

7. Simulation Animation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189

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   2. Simulacrum: A System Behavior Example Editor

      • Dave Bridgeland

      Pages 191-202

   3. Action Graphics

      • Charles E. Hughes, J. Michael Moshell

      Pages 203-235

   4. Animation Using Behavior Functions

      • Timothy C. Lethbridge, Colin Ware

      Pages 237-252

8. Applications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 253-253

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The interface between the user of a computer-based information system and the system itself has been evolving at a rapid rate. The use of a video screen, with its color and graphics capabilities, has been one factor in this evolution. The development of light pens, mice, and other screen image manipulation devices has been another. With these capabilities has come a natural desire to find more effective ways to make use of them. In particular, much work has gone into the development of interface systems that add visual elements such as icons and graphics to text. The desire to use these visual elements effectively in communication between the user and the system has resulted in a healthy competition of ideas and discussion of the principles governing the development and use of such elements. The present volume chronicles some of the more significant ideas that have recently been presented. The first volume in this series on the subject [Visual Languages (Chang, Ichikawa, and Ligomenides, eds. ), Plenum, 1986] covered work done in the early days of the field of visual languages. Here we represent ideas that have grown out of that early work, arranged in six sections: Theory, Design Systems, Visual Programming, Algorithm Animation, Simulation Animation, and Applications. I THEORY Fundamental to the concept of visual languages is the convIctIOn that diagrams and other visual representations can aid understanding and communication of ideas. We begin this volume with a chapter by Fanya S.

• algorithms
• communication
• design
• development
• distributed systems
• language
• programming
• programming language
• simulation
• system

• Faculty of Engineering, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan

  Tadao Ichikawa

• Swedish Defence Research Establishment, Linköping, Sweden

  Erland Jungert

• Department of Information Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

  Robert R. Korfhage

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