The paper gives an overview on the DSPL programming environment, an integrated approach to automate system design and implementation of applications run on dedicated parallel systems. The programming environment consists of a data-flow language and an integrated set of tools. The tools automatically derive a software model from the given application program. Based on the model, the design decis...

This is the third in a series of papers on aspects of modern computing environments that are relevant to statistical data analysis. In this paper, we discuss programming environments. In particular, we argue that integrated programming environments (for example, Lisp and Smalltalk environments) are more appropriate as a base for data analysis than conventional operating systems (for example Unix).

Collective operations on distributed data sets promote a high-level data-parallel programming style that eases many aspects of parallel programming on distributed computing platforms. In this paper we describe the design and implementation of TACO, a template library that extends the Multiple Threads Template Library with higher-order operations on distributed object sets by means of reusable t...

Generative tools for programming language support have a long history. Tools for interactive language-aware software development are central to the HARMONIA object-oriented framework. However, the generative aspects of HARMONIA are implemented in an ad hoc fashion. This paper explains how systematic generative programming could be used to improve the implementation of HARMONIA and similar systems.

This report summarizes the main activities held during the second workshop on object-technology for Ambient Intelligence and Pervasive Computing held at ECOOP 2006. The workshop covered topics varying from low-level considerations such as garbage collection and object migration, via programming language infrastructure such as reflection and context-oriented programming, to engineering applicati...

Lifts/extended formulations/cone representations of convex sets currently form an active area of research in optimization, computer science, real algebraic geometry and convex geometry. We invite high quality papers on all optimization related aspects of this topic for a special issue of Mathematical Programming, Series B. All submitted papers will be refereed according to the standards of Math...

Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is a new programming paradigm whose goal is to more cleanly modularize crosscutting concerns such as logging, synchronization, and event notification which would otherwise be scattered throughout the system and tangled with functional code. However, while AOP languages provide promising ways to separate crosscutting concerns, they can also break conventional en...

We present an approach to the design of a literate programming tool for the algebraic programming language Opal, which serves as a back-end in the formal program derivation process. In designing our documentation system we not only take technical aspects into account , but also have the acceptance of the documentation system by the software developer in mind.

This is the third in a series of papers on aspects of modern computing environments that are relevant to statistical data analysis. In this paper, we discuss programming environments. In particular, we argue that integrated programming environments (for example, Lisp and Smalltalk environments) are more appropriate as a base for data analysis than conventional operating systems (for example Unix).

Collective operations on distributed data sets foster a high-level data-parallel programming style that eases many aspects of parallel programming significantly. In this paper we describe how higher-order collective operations on distributed object sets can be introduced in a structured way by means of reusable topology classes and C++ templates.