Self is a new object-oriented language for exploratory programming based on a small
number of simple and concrete ideas: prototypes, slots, and behavior. Prototypes combine …

The research by the information visualization community (“Info Viz”) shows clearly that using
a visual representation of data-sets enables faster analysis by the end users. Several …

Multiple dispatching provides increased expressive power over single dispatching by
guiding method lookup using the values of all arguments instead of only the receiver …

Inheritance is well-known and accepted as a mechanism for reuse in object-oriented
languages. Unfortunately, due to the coarse granularity of inheritance, it may be difficult to …

A new field in distributed computing, called Ambient Intelligence, has emerged as a
consequence of the increasing availability of wireless devices and the mobile networks they …

Crossing abstraction boundaries often incurs a substantial run-time overhead in the form of
frequent procedure calls. Thus, pervasive use of abstraction, while desirable from a design …

Object-oriented programming languages promise improved programmer productivity
through abstract data types, inheritance, and message passing. Unfortunately, traditional …

Predicate classes are a new linguistic construct designed to complement normal classes in
object-oriented languages. Like a normal class, a predicate class has a set of superclasses …

Matching is an important combinatorial problem with a number of applications in areas such
as community detection, sparse linear algebra, and network alignment. Since computing …

Landin's seminal paper “The next 700 programming languages” considered programming
languages prior to 1966 and speculated on the next 700. Half-a-century on, we cast …