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List of articles in English (reverse chronological order)

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2001

• Heuristics for Edge Drawing in a Graph-Based Visual Language; Ibrahim, Bertrand; Randriamparany, Honitriniela; Yoshizumi, Hidenori. To appear in proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Symposium on Human-Centric Computing Languages and Environments (HCC'01), Stresa, Italy, September 5-7, 2001.
• Visual languages to bridge the gap between software developers and their clients; Ibrahim, Bertrand. Special session on "Visual Languages for Universal Communication", 1st  International Conference on "Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction" (UAHCI 2001), New Orleans, Luisiana, 5-10 August 2001.
• Seamless integration of control flow and data flow in a Visual Language; Randriamparany, Honitriniela, Ibrahim, Bertrand. ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA 2001, Beirut, Lebanon, June 26-29, 2001.
• An Execution model for the seamless integration of control flow and data flow; Ibrahim, Bertrand; Randriamparany, Honitriniela. ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA 2001, Beirut, Lebanon, June 26-29, 2001.
• Execution Semantics to Integrate Control Flow and Data Flow; Ibrahim, Bertrand; Randriamparany, Honitriniela. In proceedings of the ISCA 16th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications, Seattle, Washington, USA, March 28-30, 2001, pp. 40-43. (PDF version, 22Kb)
• Seamless Integration of Control Flow and Data Flow; Honitriniela Randriamparany, Ibrahim, Bertrand. In proceedings of the ISCA 16th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications, Seattle, Washington, USA, March 28-30, 2001, pp. 44-47. (PDF version, 23Kb)

2000

• Improving Readability in a Visual Language with a VLSI-Like Approach; Ibrahim, Bertrand; Randriamparany, Honitriniela; Yoshizumi, Hidenori. In proceedings of the 2000 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages (VL2000), Seattle, Washington, September 10-13, 2000, ISBN: 0-7695-0840-5, pp 69-70. (Postscript version, 28Kb)
• Relevance of Graph-Drawing Algorithms to Graph-Based Interfaces; Bertrand Ibrahim, Honitriniela Randriamparany, Hidenori Yoshizumi. In the proceedings of the 2000 International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, Palermo, Italy, May 23-26, 2000, ISBN: 1-58113-252-2, pp 290-291. (PDF version, 15Kb)
• Parallel Application Specification with the DIVA System; Honitriniela Randriamparany, Ibrahim, Bertrand, Hans Liesenberg. In proceedings of the ACIS (International Association for Computer and Information Science) First International Conference on Software Engineering Applied to Networking and Parallel/ Distributed Computing (SNPD'00), Reims, Champagne-Ardenne, France, May 18-21, 2000, ISBN: 0-9700776-0-2, pp 35-42. (PDF version, 53Kb)

1999

• Solving the Spaghetti Plate Syndrome in a Control-Flow Language with a VLSI-Like Solution, Ibrahim, Bertrand; Yoshizumi, Hidenori. In 1999 IEEE International Symposium on Visual Languages, Tokyo, Japan, September 1999, ISBN: 0-7695-0216-4, pp 202-203. (Postscript version, 26Kb)
• Semiformal Visual Languages, Visual Programming at a Higher Level of Abstraction, Ibrahim, Bertrand. In proceedings of the Fifth Conference of the ISAS (Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis) / The Third Conference of the SCI (Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics), Orlando, Florida, USA, July 31-August 4 1999, ISBN: 980-07-5916-6, pp 157-164. (PDF version, 43Kb - presentation slides, 25Kb)

1998

• Diagrammatic representation of data types and data manipulations in a combined data- and control-flow language, Bertrand Ibrahim. In 1998 IEEE International Symposium on Visual Languages, Halifax, Canada, September 1998, pp. 262-269. (Postscript version, 50Kb)
• Optimizing Cut-and-Paste on Directed Graphs, with a User-Controlled Edge Reconstruction Strategy, Bertrand Ibrahim. In 1998 IEEE International Symposium on Visual Languages (VL'98), Halifax, Canada, September 1998, pp. 90-91. (Postscript version, 25Kb)
• Guest editor's Foreword, Bertrand Ibrahim; - Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, June 1998 special issue on Visual Navigation: Methods and Tools.

1997

• Optimizing Cut-and-Paste Operations in Directed-Graph Editing, Bertrand Ibrahim - HCI International '97, August 24-29, 1997, San Francisco, California, USA, M.J.Smith, G.Salvendy and R.J. Koubek, Editors. Elsevier, publisher, ISBN 0 444 82183 X, pp. 359-362. (Postscript version, 34Kb). The slides from my presentation are also available in Postscript and compressed Postscript versions.
• Software Architectures to Improve the Effectiveness of Reuse Techniques, Maria del Rosario Girardi, Bertrand Ibrahim; - 8th Annual Workshop on Software Reuse (WISR8), March 23-26, 1997, Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, USA. (Postscript version, 19Kb; TeX version).
• Use of HTML Forms for Complex User Interfaces to Server-Side Applications (compressed version, uncompressed version), Bertrand Ibrahim - in the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS), No. 46, 1997, Special Issue on Innovative Applications of the World Wide Web, Academis Press Ltd., pp 761-771. (Postscript version, 71Kb).

1996

• Free-Text Answer Analysis on the Web (compressed version, uncompressed version), Bertrand Ibrahim; - in Revue Informatique et Statistique dans les Sciences Humaines (RISSH) journal, special issue on "Internet and hypermedia systems", University of Liège, Joseph Denooz, Editor, 1996, ISSN 0030-4972, pp 145-154.

1995

• Classification and Retrieval of Software through their Description in Natural Language, Maria del Rosario Girardi, Ph.D. Thesis No. 2782, Computer Science Department, University of Geneva, Switzerland, 1995.
• Advanced Educational Uses of the World-Wide Web (compressed version, uncompressed version, original version on the conference server), Bertrand Ibrahim, Stephen D. Franklin; - in Proceedings of Third World-Wide Web Conference - WWW'95, Darmstadt, Germany, April 10-14, 1995, special issue of Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, Vol. 27, No. 6, Apr. 1995, ISSN 0169-7552, pp 871-877. (Postscript version, 38Kb).
• Using English to retrieve Software (compressed version, uncompressed version), Maria del Rosario Girardi, Bertrand Ibrahim; - The Journal of System and Software, Special issue on Software Reuse, Vol. 30, No. 3, Sep. 1995, pp 249-270. (Postscript version, 62Kb).

1994

• Pedagogical Value of the World-Wide Web (compressed version, uncompressed version), Bertrand Ibrahim; - in Proceedings of the European DELTA Conference "Telematics for Education and Training", Düsseldorf/Neuss, 24-26 November 1994, Paul Held & Walter F. Kugemann, Editors, IOS Press, 1995, pp 401-407. Also published in ALT News 08/94 (Applied Learning Technologies in Europe), Nov. 94, pp 10-12. (Postscript version, 20Kb).
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• Automatic indexing of software artifacts (compressed version, uncompressed version), Maria del Rosario Girardi, Bertrand Ibrahim; - Third International Conference on Software Reusability, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 1-4, 1994, Proceedings William B. Frakes Editor, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, California, ISBN 0-8186-6630-7, pp 24-32. (Postscript version, 34Kb).
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• A Classification Scheme for Software Artifacts (compressed version, uncompressed version), Maria del Rosario Girardi, Bertrand Ibrahim; - Fifth ASIS SIG/CR (American Society for Information Science, Classification Research workshop), Oct. 16, 1994, Alexandria, Virginia, USA. (Postscript version, 11Kb).
• Distance learning with the World-Wide Web (compressed version, uncompressed version), Bertrand Ibrahim; - International Conference on Open and Distance Learning - Critical Success Factors, 10-12 October 1994, Geneva, Switzerland, conference proceedings, Gordon Davies & David Tinsley, editors, ISBN 3-8229-9930-X, pp 123-126. (Postscript version 13Kb).
• A Similarity Measure for Retrieving Software Artifacts (compressed version, uncompressed version), Maria del Rosario Girardi, Bertrand Ibrahim; - Sixth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Jurmala, Latvia, June 21-23, 1994. (Postscript version 34Kb).
• World-Wide Algorithm Animation (compressed version, uncompressed version), Bertrand Ibrahim; - in Conference Proceedings of the First World-Wide-Web conference, Geneva, Switzerland, May 25-27, 1994, pp 305-316. Also published in Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, Vol. 27, No. 2, Nov. 1994, Special Issue, Selected Papers of the First World-Wide Web Conference, pp 255-265. (Postscript version 42Kb).

1993

• A Software Reuse System Based on Natural Language Specifications (compressed version, uncompressed version), Maria del Rosario Girardi, Bertrand Ibrahim; - Fifth International Conference on Computing and Information, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, May 27-29, 1993, pp 507-511. (Postscript version 32Kb).
• An approach to improve the effectiveness of software retrieval (compressed version, uncompressed version), Maria del Rosario Girardi, Bertrand Ibrahim; - Proceedings of the 3rd Irvine Software Symposium, Debra J. Richardson and Richard N. Taylor, editors, University of California, Irvine, California, April 30, 1993, pp 89-100. (Postscript version 24Kb).
• Increasing the Translation Power of a Courseware Generator, Maria del Rosario Girardi, Bertrand Ibrahim; - Proceedings of the Computer Assisted Learning Conference (CAL '93), York, England, April 5-8, 1993, p. 174.
• New Approaches for Reuse Systems (compressed version, uncompressed version), Maria del Rosario Girardi, Bertrand Ibrahim; - Position Paper Collection, 2nd International Workshop on Software Reuse (IWSR-2) Lucca, Italy, March 24-26, 1993. (Postscript version 13Kb).

1992

• Semiformal Visual Languages, a case study (compressed version, uncompressed version), Bertrand Ibrahim; unpublished. ( Postscript version 21Kb).
• The Irvine-Geneva Course Development System (compressed version, uncompressed version), Alfred Bork, Bertrand Ibrahim, Bernard Levrat, Alastair Milne, Rika Yoshii; Information Processing 92 (IFIP '92), Vol. II (R.M. Aiken, editor), pp 253-261, Madrid, Spain, Sep. 7-11, 1992, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. (North-Holland), ISSN 0926-5473, ISBN 0 444 89748 8.
• A Self-Instructional Mailer (compressed version, uncompressed version), Alfred Bork, Bertrand Ibrahim, Birgit Laustsen, Bernard Levrat; Ninth International Conference on Technology and Education, Conference Proceedings, Nolan Estes and Michael Thomas, Editors, pp 871-873, Paris, March 16-20, 1992. (Postscript version 11Kb).

1991

• Alice in Authorland! (or is it Authors in wonderland?) (compressed version, uncompressed version), Bertrand Ibrahim, Alfredo Fernandez-Valmajor, Harald Mispelkamp, Giorgio Olimpo, Antonio Ulloa, Charles van der Mast, Martial Vivet; - Worshop report, NATO Advanced Research Workshop: "Authoring Environments for Computer-based Courseware", Maratea, Italy, 26-30 May 1991.

1990

• Graphics - Education, State-of-The-Art report (compressed version, uncompressed version), Bertrand Ibrahim; Eurographics Conference, Montreux, Switzerland, September 1990. (Postscript version 94Kb).
• Courseware CAD (compressed version, uncompressed version), Bertrand Ibrahim; in proceedings of the IFIP fifth World Conference on Computers in Education, Sydney, Australia, 9-13 July, Anne McDougall and Carolyn Dowling, editors, North-Holland, 1990, pp 383-389, ISBN 0 444 88750 4. (Postscript version 20Kb).

1989

• Software Engineering Techniques for CAL (compressed version, uncompressed version), Bertrand Ibrahim; Education & Computing, Vol 5, pp 215-222, Elsevier Science Publishers, 1989. (Postscript version 23Kb).

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