We introduce the design of Mondrian, a functional scripting language for glueing together components on the .NET platform. Mondrian is monadic statement centric with pure expressions and nonstrict evaluation and explores the melding of the OO and the purely lazy functional paradigms.

The “little languages” approach to systems programming is flawed: inefficient, fragile, error-prone, inexpressive, and difficult to compose. A better solution is to embed task-specific sublanguages within a powerful, syntactically extensible, universal language, such as Scheme. I demonstrate two such embeddings that have been implemented in scsh, a Scheme programming environment for Unix system...

promising option for interface development because they allow us to draw on communication and interaction styles with which humans are already familiar. In this contribution, we revisit some of our past and ongoing projects to motivate an evolution of character-based presentation systems. This evolution starts from systems in which a character presents information content in the style of a TV p...

When building a linked-data dataset for humans and machines, a range of issues emerges. In this paper we discuss our findings regarding the implementation of riese (http://riese.joanneum.at), the RDFized and interlinked version of the Eurostat data. The contribution of our work is twofold: On the one hand we propose a new way of creating semantic links, labelled as User Contributed Interlinking...

state. • Action values are used to create a script prior to an episode. • Actions are selected in priority order first, action value second, from the