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Evaluating and generalizing constraint diagrams

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This is a fully peer-reviewed, invited contribution to a special issue of JVLC containing substantially extended IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) 2007 papers; only the best six papers were invited to submit to the special issue. VL/HCC 2007 had an acceptance rate of 31% with the conference paper entitled ‘Towards Overcoming Deficiencies in Constraint Diagrams’. This JVLC paper is identified by the publisher as being in the top 25 papers published in JVLC between 2008 and 2012. JVLC is A rated in the Australian ERA/CORE list.

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The 2007 paper, on which [Delaney1] builds, identified problems with the constraint diagram notation and proposed generalized constraint diagrams. It further discussed how generalized constraint diagrams overcome the problems. The extensions to the work that are presented in [Delaney1] are (a) to expand on the details in the 2007 paper, (b) a new set of language design principles that were followed when developing generalized constraint diagrams, (c) a formal definition of generalized constraint diagrams, and (d) an establishment of the expressive power of generalized constraint diagrams, showing they are more expressive than constraint diagrams.