Title :
Managing Variation in Explanation-Oriented Languages
Author :
Walkingshaw, Eric
Author_Institution :
Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR, USA
Abstract :
This work considers the intersection of explanation-oriented language design and software variation management, two seemingly disparate research areas that turn out to be quite complementary. Successful explanations are often highly variable to adapt to the needs of a particular user, but this also makes them complex and unwieldy unless supported by a sound theory of variation.
Keywords :
software engineering; visual languages; explanation-oriented language design; program explanation; software variation management; Calculus; Cognition; Game theory; Games; Software; Software engineering; Visualization; explanations; language design; variation management;
Conference_Titel :
Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), 2010 IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Leganes
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8485-0
DOI :
10.1109/VLHCC.2010.42