@inproceedings{375b791298cf4f4ea00674056e074cb8,
title = "Enabling the Automation of Handler Bindings in Event-Driven Programming",
abstract = "In event-driven programming we can react to an event by binding methods to it as handlers, but such a handler binding in current event systems is explicit and requires explicit reason about the graph of event propagation even for straightforward cases. On the other hand, the handler binding in reactive programming is implicit and constructed through signals. Recent approaches to support either event-driven programming or reactive programming show the need of using both the two styles in a program. We propose an extension to expand event systems to support reactive programming by enabling the automation of handler bindings. With such an extension programmers can use events to cover both the implicit style in reactive programming and the explicit style in event-driven programming. We first describe the essentials of reactive programming, signals and signal assignments, in terms of events, handlers, and bindings, then point out the lack of automation in existing event systems. Unlike most research activities we expand event systems to support signals rather than port signals to event systems. In this paper we also show a prototype implementation and translation examples to evaluate the concept of automation.",
keywords = "Behavior, Event-driven programming, Reactive programming, Signal",
author = "Yungyu Zhuang and Shigeru Chiba",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.; 39th IEEE Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2015 ; Conference date: 01-07-2015 Through 05-07-2015",
year = "2015",
month = sep,
day = "21",
doi = "10.1109/COMPSAC.2015.48",
language = "???core.languages.en_GB???",
series = "Proceedings - International Computer Software and Applications Conference",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
pages = "137--146",
editor = "Gang Huang and Jingwei Yang and Ahamed, {Sheikh Iqbal} and Pao-Ann Hsiung and Chang, {Carl K.} and William Chu and Ivica Crnkovic",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2015 IEEE 39th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2015",
}