{"title":"Visual integration of UML 2.0 and block diagrams for flexible reconfiguration in mechatronic UML","authors":"Sven Burmester, H. Giese","doi":"10.1109/VLHCC.2005.68","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2005.68","url":null,"abstract":"Today, complex, networked, self-adaptive mechatronic systems which integrate advanced control engineering and software engineering concepts within a single software system are envisioned. These systems adapt their structures at runtime to react to detected environmental changes, to change their system goals, or to react to a change of the system structure. To enable the development of such systems, an integration of object-oriented modeling techniques such as UML and control theory approaches such as functional block modeling is required. Thereby, the successful visual modeling concepts of control engineering should be preserved, as otherwise wide acceptance in industry, which is mainly dominated by control engineers, is very unlikely. In this paper, we present such a visual integration for UML 2.0 components, statecharts, and block diagrams developed within the MECHATRONlC UML approach. It permits to graphically model reconfiguration between several pre-defined configurations with statecharts and instance diagrams as well as to specify the flexible assembly of control configuration if needed by means of visual reconfiguration rules.","PeriodicalId":241986,"journal":{"name":"2005 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC'05)","volume":"157 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114604107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Beckwith, Shraddha Sorte, M. Burnett, S. Wiedenbeck, T. Chintakovid, C. Cook
{"title":"Designing features for both genders in end-user programming environments","authors":"L. Beckwith, Shraddha Sorte, M. Burnett, S. Wiedenbeck, T. Chintakovid, C. Cook","doi":"10.1109/VLHCC.2005.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2005.31","url":null,"abstract":"Previous research has revealed gender differences that impact females' willingness to adopt software features in end users' programming environments. Since these features have separately been shown to help end users problem solve, it is important to female end users' productivity that we find ways to make these features more acceptable to females. In this paper, we draw from our ongoing work with users to help inform our design of theory-based methods for encouraging effective feature usage by both genders. This design effort is the first to begin addressing the gender differences in the ways that people go about problem solving in end-user programming situations.","PeriodicalId":241986,"journal":{"name":"2005 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC'05)","volume":"352 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124454073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A formal approach to the generation of visual language environments supporting multiple views","authors":"E. Guerra, P. Díaz, J. Lara","doi":"10.1109/VLHCC.2005.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2005.6","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present a formal approach, based on meta-modelling and graph transformation, to the generation of environments for visual languages (VLs) supporting multiple views. The VL syntax is defined by means of a meta-model. Views for the VL are created by selecting the classes, associations, attributes and constraints that are part of them. Once the environment is generated, the view models are translated into a global, unique model where consistency checking and further analysis can be performed by means of graph grammars. These ideas have been newly implemented in the AToM/sup 3/ tool.","PeriodicalId":241986,"journal":{"name":"2005 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC'05)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126600112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}