We give an overview of the scripting languages used in existing cryptocurrencies, and in particular we review in some detail the scripting languages of Bitcoin, Nxt and Ethereum, in the context of a high-level overview of Distributed Ledger Technology and cryptocurrencies. We survey different approaches, and give an overview of critiques of existing languages. We also cover technologies that mi...

Unsupervised online learning in commercial computer games allows computer-controlled opponents to adapt to the way the game is being played, thereby providing a mechanism to deal with weaknesses in the game AI and to respond to changes in human player tactics. For online learning to work in practice, it must be fast, effective, robust, and efficient. This paper proposes a novel technique called...

Nowadays, scripting programming languages like Python, Perl and Ruby are widely used in system programming, scientific computing, etc. Although solving a particular problem in these languages requires less time, less programming effort, and less concepts to be taught to achieve the desired goal, still they are not used as teaching tools. Therefore, the use of scripting languages as a teaching v...

We describe scripting facilities to create medical animations for intervention planning based on medical volume data and derived segmentation information. A data independent scripting language has been developed to separate animation scripts from imaging data. The scripting facilities are adaptive and allow to reuse one script to create animations for many different patients. With expressive an...

Embedded system designs and simulations become tedious and time consuming due to the complexity of modern applications. Thus, languages allowing high level description, such as SystemC, are more and more used. We present in this paper a new methodology allowing scripting inside SystemC. We integrate both SystemC and Python within a single framework for system designs and simulations called Syst...

In recent years, so-called scripting languages have become increasingly popular as they provide means to build quickly flexible applications from a set of prefabricated components. These languages typically support a single, specific architectural style of composing components (e.g. the pipes and filters architectural style), and they are designed to address a specific application domain. Altho...