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This paper presents the design of a user interface for repositories of learning objects. It integrates several tasks, such as submission, browse, search, and comment/review of learning objects, on a single screen layout. This design is being implemented on the web front-end of crimsonHex, a repository of specialized learning objects, developed as part of the EduJudge, a European project that aims to bring automatic evaluation of programming problems to e-Learning systems. © 2009 IADIS.

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Our research goal is the generation of working web applications from high level specifications. Based on our experience in using XML transformations for that purpose, we applied this approach to the rapid development of database management applications. The result is an architecture that defines of a web application as a set of XML transformations, and generates these transformations using second order transformations from a database schema. We used the Model-View-Controller architectural pattern to assign different roles to transformations, and defined a pipeline of transformations to process an HTTP request. The definition of these transformations is based on a correspondence between data-oriented XML Schema definitions and the Entity-Relationship model. Using this correspondence we were able produce transformations that implement database operations, forms interfaces generators and application controllers, as well as the second order transformations that produce all of them. This paper includes also a description of a RAD system following this architecture that allowed us to perform a critical evaluation of this proposal.

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Sensor networks can be viewed as a collection of tiny, low-cost devices programmed to sense the physical world and that communicate over radio links [12]. The devices are commonly called motes or smart dust [676], in allusion to their computational and sensing capabilities, as well as their increasingly small size. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

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Prolog affords concise, elegant, and clean solutions for many interesting problems, but is not immune to the software engineering challenges of large-scale application development. Code modularization, using modules or objects, is a key feature to keep projects manageable. Since most literature, instruction, and practice focus exclusively on object-oriented languages derived from imperative languages, objects are perceived as alien to logic programming while modules are considered a natural fit. Logtalk is an object-oriented logic programming language that can use most Prolog implementations as a back-end compiler. Logtalk objects are about code encapsulation and reuse, providing an alternative to Prolog module systems, and enabling natural solutions for a wide range of problems that would be awkward to solve using modules. This talk presents the Logtalk design goals, followed by a tutorial on Logtalk programming and some application examples. The talk ends with a discussion on the problems and benefits of developing Logtalk as a portable Prolog application. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.