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Self-documenting code

Known as: Self-describing, Self-documenting 
In computer programming, self-documenting (or self-describing) source code and user interfaces follow naming conventions and structured programming… 
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2018
2018
Self-Documenting Code
All good writing is self-taught. The truth remains that the would-be writer, using a book or critic, must teach himself. 
2010
2010
An explorative comparison of magic lens and personal projection for interacting with smart objects
One shortcoming of self-describing smart objects augmented with digital resources is the limitation of output modalities due to… 
2007
2007
Reconfigurable Media Coding: Self-Describing Multimedia Bitstreams
The development of MP3 and JPEG sparked an explosion in digital content on the internet. These early encoding formats have since… 
2006
2006
XML mapping technology: Making connections in an XML-centric world
Extensible Markup Language (XML) has grown rapidly over the last decade to become the de facto standard for heterogeneous data… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
A Model-driven WSDL Extension for Describing the QoS ofWeb Services
  • A. D’Ambrogio
  • IEEE International Conference on Web Services…
  • 2006
  • Corpus ID: 13979069
Web services are the building blocks of the emerging computing paradigm based on service-oriented architectures. A Web service is… 
2001
2001
Topic maps - an enabling technology for knowledge management
In this paper, we show how topic maps (semantically structured, self-describing link networks standardized by ISO/IEC 13250) can… 
2000
2000
Evaluating Queries on Structure with eXtended Access Support Relations
There are three common design decisions taken by today’s search engines. First, they do not replicate the data found on the Web… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Schema Discovery for Semistructured Data
To formulate a meaningful query on semistructured data, such as on the Web, that matches some of the source's structure, we need… 
1997
1997
Query Evaluation in an Object-Oriented Multimedia Mediator
A multimedia mediator aims at providing a well-structured gateway to some application dependent part of a federated multimedia… 
1995
1995
Building Interactive Distributed Applications in C++ with The Programmers' Playground
The objective of The Programmers' Playground, described in this manual, is to provide a development environment and underlying… 
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