ALCOMFT-TR-01-40

Giuseppe Cattaneo, Umberto Ferraro-Petrillo and Giuseppe F. Italiano
CATAI: Concurrent Algorithms and data Types Animationover the Internet
Rome. Work package 5. April 2001.

Abstract: In this paper we present \CATAI (for Concurrent Algorithms and data Types Animation over the Internet), an algorithm animation distributed system. \CATAI adopts an Object-Oriented animation approach that allows a programmer with an algorithmic background to transparently and efficiently animate a target algorithm. Multiple users can simultaneously watch and interact with a same animation made with \CATAI using a light-weighted Java animation client. We believe this to be a good compromise between two different viewpoints: the programmer's perspective, which typically includes the goal of animating efficiently and unobtrusively a given algorithmic code, and the user's perspective, which can benefit from interactive, easy-to-use, distributed and cooperative interfaces.

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