One of the most difficult tasks in the development of interacting features is that it requires a labor intensive and error prone process of examining and modifying code. The feature code typically ends up scattered and not reusable. In this paper, we describe a set of programming language extensions that will allow the programmer to develop interacting features as reusable program modules even ...

In this paper, we address one of the central problems in text generation: the missing link ("the generation gap" in Meteer's terms) between the global discourse organization as often provided by text planning modules and the linguistic realization of this organization. We argue that the link should be established by the lexical choice proces s using resources derived from Mel'~uk's Lezical Func...

The (Mw6.1, 7.3, 6.2) 1992 Landers earthquakes began on April 23 with the Mw6.1 1992 Joshua Tree preshock and form the most substantial earthquake sequence to occur in California in the last 40 years. This sequence ruptured almost 100 km of both surficial and concealed faults and caused aftershocks over an area 100 km wide by 180 km long. The faulting was predominantly strike slip and three mai...

Why do people prefer to use certain software systems and why do they have problems using others? What is the quality within certain software that makes people soon feel familiar using it and lets them work efficiently? These are questions that we, like a lot of people who develop and use application systems in their everyday work, asked ourselves. We believe that the key to this quality (in the...

This paper describes the design and functionality of an open-source objectoriented library for executing discrete-event simulation models in the Java programming language. The structure of the library is described in terms of its packages, class structure, and functionalities. The purpose of this paper is to provide an understanding of the library so that practitioners and researchers can bette...

This paper brings together several approaches to vagueness, and ends by suggesting a new approach. The common thread in these approaches is the crucial role played by context. In Section 2, we treat game-theoretic rationales for vagueness, and for the related concepts of ambiguity and generality. Common about these rationales is that they are based on the assumption of a conflict of interest be...

For the previous edition of this workshop [8], the authors wrote a paper presenting the aims of the first author’s Ph.D. project [13], which includes the development of a catalogue of refactorings [3] for the AspectJ programming language [1]. Case studies are be used for refactoring experiments, to gain the necessary insights. In this paper, we present several considerations on some code exampl...