GPSS 11, a general purpose digital systems simulation program based on a block diagram language. The program i s a result of incorporating improvements dictated by extensive experience in the application of a n earlier version. However, this article i s self-contained. Development and application of the language are illustrated by means of an example. Recent years have seen the development of s...

This paper deals with quality assurance procedures for general-purpose language resources. Special attention is paid to quality control in wordnet development. General issues of quality management are tackled; technical as well as methodological aspects are discussed. As a case study, the application of the described procedures is demonstrated on the quality evaluation techniques in the context...

The goal of aspect-oriented programming is to modularize crosscutting concerns (or aspects) at the code level. These aspects can be defined in either a general-purpose language or in a language that is fine-tuned to a specific aspect in consideration. Aspect-specific languages provide more concise and more readable aspect declarations but are limited to a specific domain. Moreover, multiple asp...

Work ow management requires language support for work ow speciication and task speciication. Many approaches and systems for work ow managementtherefore ooer at least one new language for work ow speciication; task speciication is usually done in a traditional language. This is motivated in particular by the fact that many components already exist and the task of the work ow tool is the speciic...