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Making application programming more worthwhile

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Contemporary Knowledge Engineering and Cognition

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 622))

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Abstract

We are designing and implementing an integrated programming framework to assist application program developers with the automation of a broad range of tasks. Our framework encourages the following activities:

  • • analyzing the situation in which automation is going to be introduced,

  • • capturing the results of the analysis as a model,

  • • building a workflow application program to manage all of the activities,

  • • configuring small collections of reuseable mechanisms to perform or assist with some of the activities,

  • • customizing the configured mechanisms thus generating one or more application programs,

  • • refining the resulting application programs on the basis of user reactions to them.

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  1. Digital Equipment Corporation, 111 Locke Drive, 01752, Marlboro, MA

    Geoffroy Dallemagne, Georg Klinker, David Marques, John McDermott & David Tung

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Dallemagne, G., Klinker, G., Marques, D., McDermott, J., Tung, D. (1992). Making application programming more worthwhile. In: Schmalhofer, F., Strube, G., Wetter, T. (eds) Contemporary Knowledge Engineering and Cognition. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 622. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0045678

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