A language FOBS-X (Extensible FOBS) is described. This language is an interpreted language, intended as a universal scripting language. An interesting feature of the language is its ability to be extended, allowing it to be adapted to new scripting environments. The interpretation process is structured as a core-language parser back-end, and a macro processor frontend. The macro processor allow...

The availability of nutrients such as nitrogen (N) affects crop productivity. Unfortunately, the intensive use synthetic N fertilizers has detrimental economic and environmental consequences.Engineered associative diazotrophs hold immense potential to help many crops acquire from air via biological fixation.The mechanistic understanding plant–diazotroph interactions forms basis engineering thes...

The NATO Modeling and Simulation Group Technical Activity 48 (MSG-048) operated from 2006 to 2009, investigating the potential of a Command and Control (C2) Battle Management Language (BML) for Multinational and NATO C2-simulation interoperation. To achieve this, MSG-048 used an interface specification developed under US Army support called Integrated BML, enhanced to meet coalition needs. Demo...

Computer generated forces (CGFs) must display realistic behavior for tactical training simulations to yield an effective training experience. Tradionally, the behavior of CGFs is scripted. However, there are three drawbacks, viz. (1) scripting limits the adaptive behavior of CGFs, (2) creating scripts is difficult and (3) it requires scarce domain expertise. A promising machine learning techniq...

In recent years, scripting languages such as Perl, Python, and Tcl have become popular development tools for the creation of sophisticated application software. One of the most useful features of these languages is their ability to easily interact with compiled languages such as C and C++. Although this mixed language approach has many benefits, one of the greatest drawbacks is the complexity o...

the more changes and additions became inevitable. Your coworkers eventually started asking for a better alternative to the modify-recompile-run routine, so you created an input file-based interface to your application. Suddenly, what used to be a single subroutine now has thousands of lines of code. Some users then decided they wanted a graphical user interface, so you created it using a differ...