ALCOMFT-TR-01-22

C. Demetrescu, I. Finocchi and G. Liotta
Visualizing Algorithms over the Web with the Publication-driven Approach
Rome. Work package 5. March 2001.

Abstract: We propose a new approach to algorithm visualization over the Web, called publication-driven approach. According to the publication-driven approach, algorithms run on a developer's remote server and their data structures are published on blackboards held by the clients. Animations are specified by attaching visualization handlers to the data structures published on the client's blackboard: modifications to these structures, due to the remote algorithm execution, trigger the running of the corresponding handlers on the client's side. The publication-driven approach has been used for designing an algorithm visualization facility over the Web, called WAVE. A first prototype of WAVE is available at the URL http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/\ wave.

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