International Auxiliary Languages*

the Sixth International Workshop on Languages

The notion of isolating the \common case" is a well known computer science principle. This paper describes ZPL, a language that treats data parallelism as a common case of MIMD parallelism. This separation of concerns has many bene ts. It allows us to de ne a clean and concise language for describing data parallel computations, and this in turn leads to e cient parallel execution. Our particula...

International Symposium on Programming Languages : Implementations , Logics

This paper presents a novel typed deductive database programming language LOL being developed at the University of Regina. This language eeectively integrates important features in object-oriented data models, complex object data models, functional data models, and deductive query languages in a uniform framework. It supports object identity, structured values, complex objects, classes, class h...

Seventh International Workshop on Foundations of Object-Oriented Languages

The Seventh International Workshop on Foundations of Object-Oriented Languages (FOOL 7) was held on January 22, 2000, and it was colocated with the ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Martı́n Abadi chaired the program committee, which received 19 submissions and accepted 6 of them. After the workshop, extended versions of 4 articles were solicited ...

Nursing languages as an international communication vehicle for nurses.

Languages, Fees and the International Scope of Patenting

This paper analyzes firms’ choices regarding the geographic scope of patent protection within the European patent system. We develop an econometric model at the patent level to quantify the impact of office fees and translation costs on firms’ decision to validate a patent in a particular country once it has been granted by the EPO. These costs have been disregarded in previous studies. The res...