A Visual Programming Language for Data Transformation

Author

Tu, Pin-Ying ; Chen, Woei-Kae ; Cheng, Yu Chin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Nat. Taipei Univ. of Technol., Taipei

fYear

2008

fDate

13-15 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

96

Lastpage

101

Abstract

This paper proposes a visual programming language, called VisualTPL, to perform data transformation in report generation. In VisualTPL, data transformation is accomplished by writing graphical dataflow programs, which manipulate tables as first-class objects with a set of table operations. Based on VisualTPL, a visual programming environment, called VisualTPS, has been developed. As demonstrated with an example, data transformation programming is easy and intuitive in VisualTPS. Tables with sophisticated layouts can be created through top-down decomposition and incremental development.

Keywords

data communication; programming languages; visual programming; VisualTPL; data transformation; graphical dataflow programs; top-down decomposition; visual programming language; Application software; Computer languages; Computer science; Contracts; Data engineering; Information retrieval; Programming environments; Scheduling algorithm; Transaction databases; Writing; Database Applications; Visual Programming Language;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Science and its Applications, 2008. CSA '08. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Hobart, ACT

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3428-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSA.2008.58

Filename

4654068