If design patterns are to fulfill their promise of dramatically improving the quality, timeliness and reusability of software it is essential that techniques be found to document them concisely and accurately. Graphical notations offer a potentially powerful approach, but unfortunately current techniques for depicting object-oriented design patterns rely on notations that were initially develop...

A novel combination of ideas from cognitive linguistics and spatial occupancy models in robotics has led to the WIP (Words Into Pictures) system. WIP automatically generates depictions of natural language descriptions of indoor scenes. A qualitative layer in the conceptual representation of objects underlies a mechanism by which alternative depictions arise for qualitatively distinct interpreta...