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Scientific Scripting for the Java Platform with jLab
July/August 2009 (vol. 11 no. 4)
pp. 50-60
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Stergios Papadimitriou, Konstantinos Terzidis, Seferina Mavroudi, Spiridon Likothanassis, "Scientific Scripting for the Java Platform with jLab," Computing in Science and Engineering, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 50-60, July/August, 2009.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MCSE.2009.126,
author = {Stergios Papadimitriou and Konstantinos Terzidis and Seferina Mavroudi and Spiridon Likothanassis},
title = {Scientific Scripting for the Java Platform with jLab},
journal ={Computing in Science and Engineering},
volume = {11},
number = {4},
issn = {1521-9615},
year = {2009},
pages = {50-60},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCSE.2009.126},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Stergios Papadimitriou, Technology Education Institute of Kavala, Greece
Konstantinos Terzidis, Technology Education Institute of Kavala, Greece
Seferina Mavroudi, University of Patras, Greece
Spiridon Likothanassis, University of Patras, Greece
By modifying Groovy with Matlab-like constructs, the authors created a compiled mathematical scripting language called GroovySci for the jLab platform. The resulting code generation enhancements could ultimately extend Java's potential for scientific computing.

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Index Terms:
Java, scripting, interpreters, Matlab, scientific programming, class loaders, Groovy, binding
Citation:
Stergios Papadimitriou, Konstantinos Terzidis, Seferina Mavroudi, Spiridon Likothanassis, "Scientific Scripting for the Java Platform with jLab," Computing in Science and Engineering, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 50-60, July-Aug. 2009, doi:10.1109/MCSE.2009.126
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