Virtual Programming

Virtual Pair Programming

Virtual Reality Programming in OzDRAFTTomas

Virtual Reality Programming in Oz

| To handle the complexity of virtual reality (VR) applications it is desirable to use a high level language. Languages such as Lisp, Prolog and Smalltalk do not support concur-rency, reactivity and real-time control which are vital for VR-applications. However the new concurrent constraint programming paradigm in general, and Oz in particular supports these requirements. Oz is designed to supp...

Functional Programming and Virtual Worlds

The FunWorlds project aims to combine and integrate ideas from functional programming, in particular functional reactive programming a la Fran, and virtual worlds, as exemplified by the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML’97). The goal of our research is the design of a concrete toolkit offering functional programmers access to this rich medium for communication and interaction while introd...

Virtual Ramping of Genetic Programming Populations

Genetic Programming often uses excessive computational resources because the population size and the maximum number of generations per run are not optimized. We have developed a technique called Virtual Ramping which eliminates the need to find an optimal value for these parameters and allows GP to be applied effectively to more difficult problems. Virtual Ramping continuously increases the siz...