The Warwick Vase

The VAS Formalism in VASE

This paper discusses the visual algebraic speciication (vas) formalism and its supporting interactive environment (vase). The vas formalism is intended for the deenition of visual syntax and semantics and is aimed at generating language speciic environments. The collection construct of vas is emphasized in that it supports the convenient speciication of language constructs involving arbitrarily...

The Warwick automatic groups software

This paper provides a description of the algorithms employed by the Warwick Automata package for calculating the nite state automata associated with a short-lex automatic group. The aim is to provide an overview of the whole process, rather than concentrating on technical details, which have been already been published elsewhere. A number of related programs are also described.

A Greek Bronze Vase

When we think of Greek vases we generally have in mind Greek pottery, which has survived in quantity. Clay, one of the most perishable of materials, becomes one of the most indestructible in the firing. In fact, much of our knowledge of ancient civilizations is derived from the potsherds that are found in successive layers on ancient sites; a pot, once fired, may break into a hundred pieces, bu...

OLCK 2006 - Warwick

Distributed Active Relationships in the Warwick Framework

This paper extends our work on the Warwick Framework a container architecture for multiple metadata packages that might be associated with a common resource. Since we believe that metadata is only “meta” in relation to other resources, we have generalized the framework to allow containers to hold or reference any sort of resource, not just those normally considered as metadata. Second, since su...