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Visual languages are ubiquitous in human cultures and range from informal ambiguous sketches to rigorously defined technical diagrams such as electronic circuit designs or musical notation. They have become a key component of human-computer interaction with the advent of GUIs and sophisticated input...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marriott, Kim
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Meyer, Bernd
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint : Springer, 1998.
Subjects:
Computer science.
Artificial intelligence.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Visual language specification
  • Visual language theory
  • Towards a hierarchy of visual languages
  • Positional grammars
  • Relational grammars
  • Using graph grammars to represent visual programs
  • A fully formalized logic theory for describing visual notations
  • Visual language syntax and semantics
  • On the isomporphism of representations
  • A snytax directed approach to picture semantics
  • Specifying input and output of visual languages
  • Specification of visual languages as means of interaction
  • Appendix.