TY - CONF AB - This article presents SAL (Synchronous Agent Language), a general-purpose grid{based 2D programming language for parallel system specication, implementation, and visualization. SAL agents have a depiction and a behavior. The behavior is dened by the means of state transition rules. The depiction is given by the drawing area on its surface. Actions in rules can execute drawing operations for dynamically changing the depiction during runtime. For a broader range of applications, SAL incorporates mobile code, code modication during runtime, and tool integration facilities. AU - Müller, Wolfgang AU - Meyer, Arne AU - Zabel, Henning ID - 39435 T2 - Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages TI - A Visual Framework for the Scripting of Parallel Agents ER -