Description:
Visual Languages and Applications is a comprehensive introduction to diagrammatical visual languages. This book covers the underlying theory of graph grammars to the applications in various domains. Visual Languages and Applications provides an in-depth treatment of visual language generation and wide coverage of successful, as well as potential applications. Pointers to related topics and further readings are also provided.
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"The book presents a survey of diagrammatic visual programming languages (VPLs), and a portfolio of case studies illustrating the theoretical work. ... This book presents through survey of the author's approach to diagrammatic visual programming languages, augmented by a comprehensive set of case studies of the approach in practice. It will serve as a thorough introduction to this work ... ." (Simon Thompson, Computing Reviews, December, 2007)