Simulation designers benefit from a flexible system for creating scenarios that are easy to modify, expressive, and allow for more complex interventions to be assessed. This technical report introduces a C-like scripting language that can be used with Construct in order to support numeric variables as well as user-specified decisions. This scripting language can be used to specify outputs in a ...

Software visualization is a useful means to present and explore large amounts of information. However, constructing useful visualizations targeted at specific tasks is often a trial-and-error process. As a consequence, a visualization prototyping tools needs to be flexible to allow for the creation of new visualizations and also to provide an environment that grants access to its powerful mecha...

Creating realistic artificially-intelligent characters is seen as one of the major challenges of the commercial games industry. Historically, character behavior has been specified using simple finite state machines and, more recently, by AI scripting languages. These languages are relatively “simple”, in part because the language has to serve three user communities: game designers, game program...

We describe scripting facilities to create medical animations for intervention planning as well as for educational purposes. We developed a data independent script language to separate animation scripts from imaging data. Our scripting facilities are adaptive and allow to reuse one script to create animations for many different patients where the same anatomic structures and their spatial relat...

Objects in popular scripting languages are lightweight and dynamic. Programmers use these objects in ways that confound existing type systems. We present a core calculus, λ S , that distills the essence of objects in a number of scripting languages. Using λ S , we examine characteristic object-oriented scripting idioms that are untypable by conventional type systems. We develop fluid object typ...

In this paper we suggest a three-language (3L) paradigm for building the program generator models. The basis of the paradigm is a relationship model of the specification, scripting and target languages. It is not necessary that all three languages would be the separate ones. We consider some internal relationship (roles) between the capabilities of a given language for specifying, scripting (gl...

A network management scripting application consists of a set of distributed and possibly mobile delegated management scripts [1, 2], as well as other non-script network management processes, which cooperate with each other to accomplish a given network management task. Such applications require debugging support: rstly, they are distributed applications, and distributed applications are notorio...

The next generation of scripting languages for creating value-added services in converged networks will be based upon XML. Industry fora like Parlay, JAIN and OSA have developed open standard Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to enable service creation in converged Next Generation Networks (NGN). While services can be developed in traditional programming languages (e.g. Java or C++) usi...

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) ist eine weit verbreitete Verwundbarkeitsklasse in Web-Anwendungen und kann sowohl von server-seitigem als auch von clientseitigem Code verursacht werden. Allerdings wird XSS primär als ein server-seitiges Problem wahrgenommen, motiviert durch das Offenlegen von zahlreichen entsprechenden XSS-Schwächen. In den letzten Jahren jedoch kann eine zunehmende Verlagerung von...

A generic program is written once and works on values of many data types. Generic Haskell is a recent extension of the functional programming language Haskell that supports generic programming. This paper discusses how Generic Haskell can be used to implement XML tools whose behaviour depends on the DTD or Schema of the input XML document. Example tools include XML editors, databases, and compr...