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Title

A domain-specific visual language for report writing using microsoft DSL tools

Author(s)

Dantra, Ruskin;  Grundy, John;  Hosking, John

Abstract

Many domain specific textual languages have been developed for generating complex reports. These are challenging for novice users to learn, understand and use. We describe our work developing the prototype of a new visual language tool for a company to augment their textual report writing language. We describe key motivations for our visual language tool solution, its architecture, design and development using Microsoft DSL tools, and its evaluation by end-users.

Publication type

Conference paper

Source

Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2009), Corvallis, United States, 20-24 September 2009 / Robert De Line, Mark Minas, and Martin Erwig (eds.), pp. 15-22

Publication year

2009

FOR Code(s)

0806 Information Systems

Keyword(s)

Design and development;  Domain specific;  Domain-specific visual language;  DSL;  End-users;  ITS architecture;  ITS evaluation;  Linguistics;  MicroSoft;  Modems;  Novice user;  Query languages;  Report writing;  Telecommunication lines;  Textual language;  Visual language tools

Publisher

IEEE

ISBN

9781424448760, 142444876X

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2009.5295308

Copyright

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