VISUAL PROGRAMMING IN A VISUAL P.NVIRONMRNT FOR 1.IVP.R SIMIJIATION STUDIES.
M. Retrograde, Universitii degli Studi · 1990
The Interactive System for Hepatologist Experimentation is a visual explorative environment designed to allow the community of hepatologists to formalize, check, validate and discuss their pathology and physiology liver models. In this environment the programming of simulation experiments is achieved by the use of visual languages. The use of Conditional Attributed Rewriting Systems is extended to the Visual langage definition and the case of a visual language for programming the simulation of population of hepatic cells is studied. It is discussed how such a viswl language allows the construction of programs which are expressed by the combination of graphical symbols which are familiar to the physician or which schematize shapes familiar to him and resemble the simulated system he observes in the real experiments. It is also shown how a visual approach avoids the request of unnecessary precision during the interaction, so leaving the user to focus on the solution of his problems.