STatistical Application BuiLding Environment STABLE
	The aim of the STABLE project is to design, build and demonstrate a modern Statistical Application Building Environment.

The project will integrate an existing application building system, IRIS Explorer, and an existing widely used statistical software system, Genstat, along with other available statistical algorithms to give the new STABLE system. The STABLE system will then be evaluated by constructing end-user systems in different application areas. The main characteristics sought for the STABLE system are:

• use of the visual programming paradigm to provide enhanced ease-of-use and flexibility
• facilities for new approaches to visualising statistical data
• facilities for the development of end-user applications in 'canned' forms
• ability to incorporate alternative or customised user interfaces to take account of native language and range of experience
• full complement of reliable and powerful statistical techniques with access to numerical and other relevant capabilities
• gateways to existing external systems
• open, extensible architecture for incorporating user-developed code
• environment suitable for the research, implementation and promulgation of new algorithms
• components easily distributable over multiple processors in heterogeneous environment

Consortium

• The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd, NAG (UK, industrial)
• Statistics Department, IACR-Rothamsted, RES (UK, research)
• GESA, SA (Spain, Industrial)
• Limagrain Genetics Research, Biometrics Unit, LIMA (France, industrial)
• Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, UPC, (Spain, academic)
• Cebal Entec (Spain, Industrial)

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