X-Git-Url: https://git.martlubbers.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=methods.top.tex;h=3acfb17cf1a5d81fe203409053f15b78415bc72c;hb=7ca87066ed1f3a962d993a9ac32ab761cfdc05a9;hp=c05165a705ce513af7bcb7434aacc18ace7e33df;hpb=5f23e1fc77da5ea47ca9e1f71f7c2e862e0e0df2;p=msc-thesis1617.git diff --git a/methods.top.tex b/methods.top.tex index c05165a..3acfb17 100644 --- a/methods.top.tex +++ b/methods.top.tex @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ \section{iTasks} -\gls{TOP} is a recent programming paradigm implemented as +\gls{TOP} is a modern recent programming paradigm implemented as \gls{iTasks}\cite{achten_introduction_2015} in the pure lazy functional language \gls{Clean}\cite{brus_cleanlanguage_1987}. \gls{iTasks} is a -\gls{EDSL} to model workflow tasks in the broadest sense. A \CI{Task} is just +\gls{EDSL} to model workflow tasks in the broadest sense. A \gls{Task} is just a function that --- given some state --- returns the observable \CI{TaskValue}. The \CI{TaskValue} of a \CI{Task} can have different states. Not all state transitions are possible as shown in Figure~\ref{fig:taskvalue}. Once a value @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ enterName = enterInformation "Enter your name" [] \end{lstlisting} \begin{figure}[H] + \centering \begin{subfigure}{.25\textwidth} \centering \includegraphics[width=.9\linewidth]{taskex1} @@ -60,12 +61,13 @@ enterName = enterInformation "Enter your name" [] \caption{Example of a generated user interface} \end{figure} -For a type to be suitable it must have instances for a collection of generic -functions that are captured in the class \CI{iTask}. Basic types have +For a type to be suitable, it must have instances for a collection of generic +functions that is captured in the class \CI{iTask}. Basic types have specialization instances for these functions and show an according interface. Generated interfaces can be modified with decoration operators. \section{Combinators} +\todo{check and refine} \Glspl{Task} can be combined using so called \gls{Task}-combinators. Combinators describe relations between \glspl{Task}. \Glspl{Task} can be combined in parallel, sequenced and their result values can be converted to @@ -117,7 +119,7 @@ Listing~\ref{lst:combinators}. (-&&-) infixr 4 :: (Task a) (Task b) -> Task (a,b) | iTask a & iTask b \end{lstlisting} -\section{\acrlongpl{SDS}} +\section{Shared Data Sources} \Glspl{SDS} are an abstraction over resources that are available in the world or in the \gls{iTasks} system. The shared data can be a file on disk, it can be the time, a random integer or just some data stored in memory. The actual