An Interactive Environment for Tool Selection, Specification and Composition
| dc.contributor.author | Arthur, James D. | en |
| dc.contributor.department | Computer Science | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-06-19T14:36:24Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2013-06-19T14:36:24Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 1986 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper describes a high-level, screen oriented programming environment that supports problem solving by tool selection and tool composition. Each tool is a powerful parameterized program that performs a single high-level operation (e.g., sort a file). To solve a given problem, the user first interacts with the system to compose a task overview consisting of a sequence of generic operations. Such sequences are called compositions. Once an overview is established, a second part of the environment interacts with the user to help expand the generic operations into a corresponding sequence of parameterized tool calls. When a composition is expanded to include details such as parameterization and punctuation it is called a script. This script, when executed by the underlying runtime system, computes a solution to the specified user task. The current environment runs under the Unix operating system on a VAX 11/785, and uses a Bitgraph terminal with a 640x720 bitmap display and standard keyboard as the principal interface device. | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier | http://eprints.cs.vt.edu/archive/00000009/ | en |
| dc.identifier.sourceurl | http://eprints.cs.vt.edu/archive/00000009/01/TR-86-02.pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.trnumber | TR-86-02 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/19416 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University | en |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Historical Collection(Till Dec 2001) | en |
| dc.rights | In Copyright | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | en |
| dc.title | An Interactive Environment for Tool Selection, Specification and Composition | en |
| dc.type | Technical report | en |
| dc.type.dcmitype | Text | en |
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