This article addresses the performance of scientific applications that use the Python programming language. First, we investigate several techniques for improving the computational efficiency of serial Python codes. Then, we discuss the basic programming techniques in Python for parallelizing serial scientific applications. It is shown that an efficient implementation of the array-related opera...

In this paper, we study the operational semantics of agent communication languages.We develop a basic multi-agent programming language for systems of concurrently operating agents, into which agent communication languages can be integrated. In this language, each agent has a mental state comprised of an informational component and a motivational component; interaction between the agents proceed...

The Biopsychology-Toolbox is a free, open-source Matlab-toolbox for the control of behavioral experiments. The major aim of the project was to provide a set of basic tools that allow programming novices to control basic hardware used for behavioral experimentation without limiting the power and flexibility of the underlying programming language. The modular design of the toolbox allows portatio...

The paper provides a mathematical yet simple model for the full programming language Prolog, as apparently intended by the ISO draft standard proposal. The model includes all control constructs, database operations, solution collecting predicates and error handling facilities, typically ignored by previous theoretical treatments of the language. We add to this the ubiquitous box-model debugger....

This thesis presents SodaBot, a general-purpose software agent user-environment and construction system. Its primary component is the basic software agent | a computational framework for building agents which is essentially an agent operating system. We also present a new language for programming the basic software agent whose primitives are designed around human-level descriptions of agent act...

These are the basic thoughts that should go into the preface. It is not a final version. In a series of papers in the mid-1960's, Landin expounded two important observations about programming languages. First, he argued that all programming languages share a basic set of facilities for specifying computation but differ in their choice of data and data primitives. The set of common facilities co...

Program synthesis is the automatic construction of programs to meet given specifications. These specifications constitute a high-level description of the desired program which expresses the purpose of the program, without indicating the method by which that purpose is to be achieved. The specifications are expressed in terms of many constructs which are endemic to the particular subject domain ...

Presently, C++ programming has been taught in many universities around the world as first object-oriented language for undergraduate students to start studying concepts and computer architecture. However, of them may struggle due nature formal language. Thus, hands-on self-study tools can be effective. In previous, we have developed Java learning assistant system (JPLAS) assisting programming. ...

Undergraduate students obtain important knowledge and skills by studying the pragmatics of programming in multiple languages and the principles underlying programming language design and implementation. These topics strengthen students’ grasp of the power of computation, help students choose the most appropriate programming model and language for a given problem, and improve their design skills...