Review of PSE (Problem-Solving Environment) in Computing Science

Abstract

In this paper a review is presented on the PSE (Problem Solving Environment) concept in computing science. PSE is an emerging scientific and technological active area in computing science. In the PSE concept, human concentrates on target problems and works on solutions, and a part of application of solutions, which can be solved mechanically, is performed by computers or machines or software. PSE provides integrated human friendly innovative computational services and facilities for easy incorporation of novel solution methods to solve a target class of problems. PSE is an innovative concept to enrich our e-Science, e-Life, e-Engineering, e-Production, e-Commerce, e-Home, etc. The PSE-relating studies were started in 1970's to provide a higher-level programming language than Fortran, etc. in scientific computations [Trans. Jpn. Soc. Comput. Eng. and Science, 20171001, (2017)]. The trend at that time was natural to deliver more human-friendly programming environment, and was resulting in PSE, CAE (Computer Assisted Engineering), libraries, etc. At present PSE covers a rather wide area,