Talks and Poster Presentations (with Proceedings-Entry):
F. Ledermann:
"Extracting the Essential Cartographic Functionality of Programs on the Web";
Talk: 28th International Cartographic Conference ICC 2017,
Washington D.C.;
07-02-2017
- 07-07-2017; in: "Proceedings of the 28th International Cartographic Conference (ICC 2017)",
Proceedings of the International Cartographic Association,
1, 66
(2018),
ISSN: 2570-2092;
1
- 5.
English abstract:
Following Aristotle, F. P. Brooks (1987) emphasizes the distinction between "essential difficulties" and "accidental difficulties" as a key challenge in software engineering. From the point of view of cartography, it would be desirable to identify the cartographic essence of a program, and subject it to additional scrutiny, while its accidental properties, again from the point of view of cartography, are usually of lesser relevance to cartographic analysis. In this paper, two methods that facilitate extracting the cartographic essence of programs are presented: close reading of their source code, and the automated analysis of their runtime behavior. The advantages and shortcomings of both methods are discussed, followed by an outlook to future developments and potential applications.
Keywords:
Cartographic programming, web cartography, methods, cartographic transformations
"Official" electronic version of the publication (accessed through its Digital Object Identifier - DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/ica-proc-1-66-2018
Electronic version of the publication:
https://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/publik_265393.pdf
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