We are advocating a component-oriented software development approach that provides support for a clear separation between the computational and the compositional entities of an application. This principle is best captured by the application building paradigm “Applications = Components + Scripts.” However, the biggest obstacle for a successful use of this maxim originates from the choice of the ...

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We propose a novel method for interactive editing of motion data based on motion decomposition. Our method employs Independent Component Analysis (ICA) to separate motion data into visually meaningful components called style components. The user then interactively identifies suitable style components and manipulates them based on a proposed set of operations. In particular, the user can transfe...

We describe a generic software environment intended to assist the construction of applications by the composition of reusable components. Two classes of components (and their related systems) are clearly distinguished: operational components (or components in the ’classical’, technological sense) and descriptive components, encapsulating meta-data about, amongst others, their operational counte...

Although it is generally recognised that formal modelling is crucial for ensuring the correctness of software systems, some obstacles to its wider adoption in software engineering persist. One of these is that its productivity is low; another that for modelling techniques and tools to be used efficiently, a broad range of specific skills is required. With the gap between computer performance an...