Sensor network users currently face enormous challenges, including programming difficulty and the use of unfamiliar, complex interfaces. To date, most usability research with respect to sensor networks have focused on simplifying programming by offering powerful programming abstractions. Unfortunately, such work does little to encourage ordinary users, such as application scientists, to adopt s...

We present PerfMiner, a system for the transparent collection, storage and presentation of thread-level hardware performance data across an entire cluster. Every sub-process/thread spawned by the user through the batch system is measured with near zero overhead and no dilation of run-time. Performance metrics are collected at the thread level using tool built on top of the Performance Applicati...

Distributed applications have fostered the standardization of application programming interfaces for the underlying communication services. Three popular communication modelsremote procedure calls, messaging and queuing, and conversations-support distributed applications across different networking protocols and physical media. Access to the conversational services of Advanced Programto-Program...

Interface builders only support the construction of the menus and dialogue boxes of an application. They do not support the construction of interfaces of many application classes (visualization, simulation, command and control, domain-specific editors) because of the dynamic and complex information that these applications process. HUMANOID is a model-based interface design and construction tool...

This paper presents Biglook, a widget library for an extended version of the Scheme programming language. It uses classes of a Clos-like object layer to represent widgets and Scheme closures to handle graphical events. Combining functional and object-oriented programming styles yields an original application programming interface that advocates a strict separation between the implementation of ...

The following paper demonstrates that programmed sequential graph grammars can be used in a systematic proceeding to specify the changes of high level intermediate data structures arising in a programming support environment, in which all tools work in an incremental and syntax-driven mode. In this paper we lay stress upon the way to get the specification rather than on the result of this proce...

Graphical user interfaces (GUI) provide intuitive and easy means for users to communicate with computers. However, construction of GUI software requires complex programming that is far from being intuitive. Because of the \semantic gap" between the textual application program and its graphical interface, the programmer himself must conceptually maintain the correspondence between the textual pr...

With the introduction of code annotations in popular languages like Java and C#, several frameworks and platforms adopted a metadatabased API (Application Programming Interface). By using this approach, instead of extending classes, implementing interfaces or invoking configuration methods, the API demand its users to add metadata through annotations in their classes. This approach can bring se...