For the first time, an explicit closed form expression is derived for the characteristic function of the generalized normal distribution (GND). Also derived is an expression for the correlation coefficient between variate-values and their ranks in samples from the GND. The expression for the former involves the Fox-Wright generalized confluent hypergeometric 1Ψ0-function, while the latter is ex...

The eXtensible Markup Language (XML), a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard, is utilized to encode descriptions in Wright/c, the architectural description language Wright extended with confidentialityrelated specifications. The grammar of Wright/c is converted to an XML Schema. A common format is thus formed which can be used by applications accepting architectural descriptions as input. T...