A Data-Flow Visual Approach to Symbolic Computing: Implementing a Production-Rule-Based Programming System through a General-Purpose Data-Flow VL

Mauro Mosconi - Marco Porta

Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica - Università di Pavia
Via Ferrata, 1 - 27100 - Pavia - Italy

mauro@vision.unipv.it - porta@vision.unipv.it


Published in the Proceedings of the 16th IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages (VL 2000, September 10-14, 2000, Seattle, WA, USA)
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Abstract

The main aim of this paper is to investigate how the production-rule-based computational paradigm can be implemented through visual data-flow techniques. We propose a simple yet effective system for visually composing rule preconditions and actions, through a general purpose data-flow visual language.

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