The concept of complexity is used in many areas of computer science and software engineering. Software complexity metrics can be used to evaluate and compare quality of software development and maintenance processes and their products. Complexity management and measurement is especially important in novel programming technologies and paradigms, such as aspect-oriented programming, generative pr...

A metalanguage for concurrent process languages is introduced. Within it a range of process languages can be defined, including higher-order process languages where processes are passed and received as arguments. (The process language has, however, to be linear, in the sense that a process received as an argument can be run at most once, and not include name generation as in the Pi-Calculus.) T...

One of the key goals of rewriting logic from its beginning has been to provide a semantic and logical framework in which many models of computation and languages can be naturally represented. There is by now very extensive evidence supporting the claim that rewriting logic is indeed a very exible and simple logical and semantic framework. From a language design point of view the obvious questio...

In this paper we present GDialogXML, which is a new powerful modeling language for multi-modal dialog applications. In contrast to other dialog description languages (e.g. VoiceXML) GDialogXML focuses on the complete development process, covering data models, dialog flow, interaction models, and many more. It even allows for the modality-independent modeling of dialog applications. Beside some ...

The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) Approach claims that there are some universalities in all languages. Speech acts seem to be present in all languages, but considering this approach, research has not indicated whether request speech act differs from one language to another. Thus, this study intended to investigate whether request strategies are used differently in English and Persian roma...