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The release comes with a user manual, several papers
(in Postscript format), sample programs, and source code.


 System requirements
 ===================
The BeBOP system requires the following:

* The NU-Prolog system, compiler and interpreter
* The pnp preprocessor
  (this is included as part of the BeBOP system release)
* GCC or similar compiler
* Yacc (or Bison) and Lex


 For more details, contact:
 ==========================
        Andrew Davison
        Dept. of Computer Science
        University of Melbourne
        Parkville, Victoria 3052
        Australia

Email:  [e-mail]
Fax:    [phone]
Phone:  [phone] / 9101
Telex:  AA 35185


>47 Knowledge Media, Massive cd-rom, lots of freeware

A "Resource Library" of cd-rom discs .  CDs for language/OS, graphics, multi-
media, mega-media (3), and audio.  "Gathered from the resources of the
Internet, CompuServe, Genie, BIX, and other BBS's".  Some shareware.  Should be
available at your local software store.

From the back of the Languages CD:

  'Over 100 Languages'
        ...

This is the largest collection of compilers, interpreters, libraries, and
source code for standard and experimental computer languages and operating
systems ever assembled.  A must for anyone interested in computer programming,
this disc is just right for everyone, whether he or she is a researcher,
student, or an interested hobbist.

Knowledge Media Inc.
Paradise, CA  95969 USA


>48 u++, C++ Trans. and Concry RTS

From: [e-mail] (Nat Makarevitch)
Subject: Re: 'Concurrent Objects' - Suggestions needed
Date: 10 Oct 1993 02:41:15 GMT
Organization: LIVIA

       u++ - uC++ Translator and Concurrency Runtime System

DESCRIPTION
The u++ command introduces  a  translator  pass  over  the
specified source files after the C preprocessor and before
the actual C++ compilation.  The translator converts  sev-
eral  new  uC++  constructs  into C++ statements.  The u++
command also provides  the  runtime  concurrency library,
which must be linked with each uC++ application.


REFERENCES
uC++:  Concurrency in the Object-Oriented Language C++, by
P.A.  Buhr,  G.  Ditchfield,  R.A.   Stroobosscher,   B.M.
Younger, C.R.  Zarnke;   Software-Practise and Experience,
22(2):137--172, February 1992.  This paper describes  uC++
v2.0, which has been significantly extended.

The  uC++  system is available via anonymous FTP
from watmsg.UWaterloo.ca:pub/uSystem.  A license agreement
is required to use uC++.


>49 Real Time

From: [e-mail] (David B Stewart)
Subject: Re: Object-Oriented Systems and Realtime
Organization: The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1993 16:51:19 GMT

In article <[e-mail]>,
Chris Zimmermann <[e-mail]> wrote:
>Hi community:
>
>What is the state of the art concerning real time in
>object-oriented systems (if any)? By this, I mean the
>marriage of more or less traditional real time systems
>(including systems concerned with "soft" real time aspects
>like multimedia) with the OO paradigm.
>[...]

We've done significant work in that area.  Check out the following tech
report:

D. B. Stewart, R. A. Volpe, and P. K. Khosla, "Design of Dynamically
    Reconfigurable Real-Time Software using Port-Based Objects,"
    Carnegie Mellon University Tech Report #CMU-RI-TR-93-11, July 1993.

    Abstract: The current development of applications for sensor-based
    robotic and automation (R&A) systems is typically a `one-of-a-kind'
    process, where most software is developed from scratch, even though
    much of the code is similar to code written for other applications.
    The cost of these systems can be drastically reduced and the capability
    of these systems improved by providing a suitable software framework
    for all R&A sys tems. We describe a novel software framework, based on
    the notion of dynamically reconfigurable software for sensor-based
    control systems. Tools to support the implementation of this framework
    have been built into the Chimera 3.0 Real-Time Operating System. The
    framework provides for the systematic development and predictable
    execution of flexible R&A applications while maintaining the ability to
    reuse code from previous applications. It combines object-oriented
    design of software with port-automaton design of digital control
    systems. A control module is an instance of a class of port-based
    objects. A task set is formed by integrating objects from a module
    library to form a specific configuration. An implementation using
    global state variables for the automatic integration of port-based
    objects is presented. A control subsystem is a collection of jobs
    which are executed one at a time, and can be programmed by a user.
    Multiple control subsystems can execute in parallel, and operate
    either independently or cooperatively. One of the fundamental concepts
    of reconfigurable software design is that modules are developed
    independent of the target hardware. Our framework defines classes of
    reconfigurable device driver objects for proving hardware independence
    to I/O devices, sensors, actuators, and special purpose processors.
    Hardware independent real-time communication mechanisms for
    inter-subsystem communication are also described. Along with providing
    a foundation for design of dynamically reconfigurable real-time
    software, we are also developing many modules for the control module,
    device driver, and subroutine libraries. As the libraries continue to
    grow, they will form the basis of code that can eventually be used by
    future R&A applications. There will no longer be a need for developing
    software from scratch for new applications, since many required modules
    will already be available in one of the libraries.

This report is available via anonymous FTP as follows:

    % ftp IUS4.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU    (128.2.209.143)
    Name:       anonymous
    Password:   yourname@yourmachine
    ftp> binary
    ftp> cd /usr/chimera/public
    ftp> get CMU_RI_TR_93_11.ps.Z
    ftp> quit
    % uncompress CMU_RI_TR_93_11.ps.Z
    % lpr CMU_RI_TR_93_11.ps    (must be a postscript printer)

For more information, 'finger [e-mail]'.

>50 Ada-9x (compiler, GNU)

From: [e-mail] (Tucker Taft)
Subject: Re: which language to use ...?
Organization: Intermetrics, Inc.
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1993 23:22:42 GMT

 >[...]

Also, there is a preliminary release of a GNU-GCC-based Ada 9X
compiler available from NYU on cs.nyu.edu in pub/gnat/...
The front end is written in Ada itself; the back end
is the usual GCC back end (enhanced as appropriate).

S. Tucker Taft  [e-mail]
Intermetrics, Inc.
Cambridge, MA  02138


>51 OO Course Slides

From: [e-mail] (David Weller)
Subject: Re: Slides on OOP or OMT wanted
Organization: Sigma Software Engineering, Inc.
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1993 11:01:44 EST

In article <2bdot7$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Mikal Ziane (Univ. Paris 5 and INRIA) ) writes:
>
>Hello netters,
>
>Is anybody aware of public domain slides available on an ftp site ?
>I'd like slides on OO programming or OO design methods (esp. OMT).
>I know I am crazy to ask for that but someone told me he saw
>a very good C++ course on some ftp site ! (he does not remember which one
>unfortunatemy)
>

It's true!  On WUArchive (wuarchive.wustl.edu) there is a series of
slides developed in Microsoft's PowerPoint.  The course material
includes lesson plans, tests, and workbooks, along with full notes
accompanying each slide.

There's one _little_ catch -- it's in the Public Ada Library.  Now,
the OOP course (there's three courses, one on OOD, OOP, and Software
Engineering) covers both C++ and Ada.  It was designed to let the
students work in both languages to get an objective opinion of the
pluses and minuses of each language (gee, what a concept!).

The OOD slides do NOT cover OMT.  Some material is used from Booch's
OOD book, but not the notation.  From looking at the slides, it appears
very easy to insert your own notation.  The important part for students
is communicating the concepts, which (for the price) these slides do
a DAMN good job of. <- (Safire's Violation #45: "A perposition is a
bad thing to end a sentence with." :-)

Ah, but WHERE on WUArchive are they?  If you look under
languages/ada/crsware, I believe you'll find them.  Good luck!

dgw
--
type My_Disclaimer is new Standard.Disclaimer with record
    AJPO, SEI : Cognizance := Disavow_All_Knowledge;
end record;--)


>52 GTE Distrib Reports

From: [e-mail] (Emon)
Subject: Reports Available From The Distributed Object Computing Department
Date: 5 Nov 93 18:10:15 GMT
Organization: GTE Laboratories, Inc.

                        REPORTS AVAILABLE FROM
             THE DISTRIBUTED OBJECT COMPUTING DEPARTMENT
                     GTE LABORATORIES INCORPORATED
                        40 Sylvan Road, M/S 62
                     Waltham, Massachusetts 02254


For over six years, the primary focus of the Distributed Object Computing
Department within GTE Laboratories has been the Distributed Object
Management (DOM) project. The DOM project conducts research into
object-oriented technology for integrating heterogeneous, autonomous,
distributed (HAD) computer systems/resources. Major research areas include:
interoperable object models; interoperable, distributed object
architectures; heterogeneous, extended transaction models; and information
requests in HAD environments. We are experimenting in these areas using our
prototype DOM system which we have developed over the past five years. This
technology is based on ideas from a number of technical areas including
distributed, object-oriented, databases, multi-database systems, operating
systems, and programming languages.

Permission is granted at this time for the operations and uses listed
below. However, this permission is non-transferable and is subject to
revocation on a report-by-report basis, due to possible copyright transfers
that are normal in the publication process. Any additional copyright
restrictions are noted in the reports themselves. Default permissions are
for anonymous ftp, electronic viewing, and single-copy printing.
Permissible uses are research and browsing. Specifically prohibited are
SALES of any copy, whether electronic or hardcopy, of any of these reports
for any purpose. Also prohibited is copying, excerpting or extensive
quoting of any report in another work without the written permission of one
of the report's authors.

Reports marked with a "*" can be retrieved in postscript(ascii) form via
anonymous ftp from ftp.gte.com (132.197.8.2) in the "pub/dom" subdirectory.

 >>>>>>>>> 1994

[GEOR94a]*   Georgakopoulos, D., M. Rusinkiewicz, and W. Litwin,
"Chronological Scheduling of Transactions with Temporal Dependencies," to
appear in the VLDB journal, January 1994 (submitted in December 1990).

[GEOR94b]*   Georgakopoulos, D., M. Hornick, P. Krychniak, and F. Manola,
"Specification and Management of Extended Transactions in a Programmable
Transaction Environment," to appear in the Proceedings of the 10th
International Conference on Data Engineering, Houston, Texas, February
1994. Also published as TC-0207-02-93-165, GTE Laboratories Incorporated,
February 1993.


 >>>>>>>>> 1993

[BROD93a]*   Brodie, M.L., "The Promise of Distributed Computing and the
Challenge of Legacy Information Systems," in Hsiao, D., E.J. Neuhold, and
R. Sacks-Davis (eds), Proc. IFIP TC2/WG2.6 Conference on Semantics of
Interoperable Database Systems, Lorne, Australia, November 1992, Elsevier
North Holland, Amsterdam 1993.

[BROD93b]*   Brodie, M.L. and M. Stonebraker, "DARWIN: On the Incremental
Migration of Legacy Information Systems," DOM Technical Report,
TR-0222-10-92-165, GTE Laboratories Inc., March 1993.

[GEOR93a]*   Georgakopoulos, D., M. Hornick, and P. Krychniak, "An
Environment for Specification and Management of Extended Transactions in
DOMS," to appear in Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on
Interoperability in Multidatabase Systems, Vienna, Austria, April 1993.

[GEOR93c]*   Georgakopoulos, D., M. Rusinkiewicz and A. Sheth, "Using
Ticket-based Methods to Enforce the Serializability of Multidatabase
Transactions," to appear in the IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge
Engineering December 1993 (submitted in February 1992).

[GEOR93e]*   Georgakopoulos, D., M. Hornick, F. Manola, M. Brodie, S.
Heiler, F. Nayeri, and B. Hurwitz, "An Extended Transaction Environment for
Workflows in Distributed Object Computing," in IEEE Data Engineering, pp.
24-27, vol. 16, no. 2, June 1993.

[MANO93a]   Manola, F., "The Need for Object Model Interoperability,"
Workshop Report, Workshop on Application Integration Architectures, Dallas,
Texas, February 1993

[MANO93c]*   Manola, F. and S. Heiler, "A 'RISC' Object Model for Object
System Interoperation: Concepts and Applications," TR-0231-08-93-165, GTE
Laboratories, Inc., August 1993.

[MITC93a]   Mitchell, G., "Extensible Query Processing in an
Object-Oriented Database," PhD Thesis, Brown University Technical Report
No. CS-93-16, May 1993. Available in hard copy from Brown University,
Computer Science Department, and postscript format via anonymous ftp from
wilma.cs.brown.edu as file techreports/93/cs93-16.ps.Z

[NAYE93c]*   Nayeri, F., and B. Hurwitz, "Experiments with Dispatching in a
Distributed Object System," GTE Laboratories, Inc., TR-0236-09-93-165, July
1993.

[NAYE93d]*   Nayeri, F., "Addressing Component Interoperability in the OMG
Object Model," position paper submitted to ORB Implementors' Workshop, San
Francisco, June 1993.

[NICO93a]   Nicol, J., T. Wilkes, and F. Manola, "Object Orientation in
Heterogeneous Distributed Computing Systems," IEEE Computer, pp. 57-67,
Vol. 26, No.6, June 1993.

[VENT93]*   Ventrone, V. and S. Heiler, "Some Practical Advice for Dealing
with Semantic Heterogeneity in Federated Database Systems," Submitted to
USENIX.


 >>>>>>>>> 1992

[BGR92]*   Batra, R., D. Georgakopoulos, and M. Rusinkiewicz, "A
Decentralized Deadlock-free Concurrency Control Method for Multidatabase
Transactions," in Proceedings of 12th International Conference on
Distributed Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan, June, 1992.

[BRO92b]*   Brodie, M.L. and J. Mylopoulos , "Artificial Intelligence and
Databases: Dawn, Midday, or Sunset?," Canadian Information Processing
/Informatique Canadienne, July/August 1992.

[BROD92c]*   Brodie, M.L. and S. Ceri, "On Intelligent and Cooperative
Information Systems," in International Journal of Intelligent and
Cooperative Information Systems 1, 2 September 1992.

[BUCH92]   Buchmann, A.P., M.T. Ozsu, M. Hornick, D. Georgakopoulos, F.A.
Manola, "A Transaction Model for Active Distributed Object Systems," in
Database Transaction Models for Advanced Applications, A.K. Elmagarmid,
(ed.), Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA, Spring 1992.

[GEOR92]*   Georgakopoulos, D., "A Framework for Dynamic Specification of
Extended Multidatabase Transactions and Interdatabase Dependencies,"
Proceedings of Third Workshop on Heterogeneous Databases and Semantic
Interoperability, Boulder, February, 1992.

[HEIL92]   Heiler, S., S. Haradhvala, B. Blaustein, A. Rosenthal, and S.
Zdonik, "A Flexible Framework for Transaction Management in Engineering
Environments," in Database Transaction Models for Advanced Applications,
A.K. Elmagarmid (ed.), Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA, Spring 1992.

[MANO92]*   Manola, F., S. Heiler, D. Georgakopoulos, M. Hornick, M.
Brodie, "Distributed Object Management," International Journal of
Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems 1, 1 March 1992.

[MANO92a]*   Manola, F. and S. Heiler, "An Approach To Interoperable Object
Models," Proceedings of the International Workshop on Distributed Object
Management, Edmonton, Canada, August 1992 (also in Distributed Object
Management, M.T. Ozsu, U. Dayal, and P. Valduriez (eds.), Morgan Kaufmann,
San Mateo, CA, 1993).


 >>>>>>>>> 1991

[BROD91]   Brodie, M., "Distributed Object Management Research,"
Proceedings of the Second Telecommunications Information Networking
Architecture (TINA) Workshop, pp. 297-303, Chantilly, France, March 1991.

[BROD91a]*   Brodie, M. and M. Hornick, "An Interoperability Development
Environment For Intelligent Information Systems," Proceedings of the
International Workshop on the Development of Intelligent Information
Systems, Niagara-on-the-Lake, April 1991.

[BUCH91]*   Buchmann, A.P., M. Tamer Ozsu, and D. Georgakopoulos, "Towards
a Transaction Management System for DOM," TR-0146-06-91-165, GTE
Laboratories Incorporated, June 1991.

[GEOR91a]*   Georgakopoulos, D., M. Rusinkiewicz, and A. Sheth, "On
Serializability of Multidatabase Transactions Through Forced Local
Conflicts," Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Data
Engineering, Kobe, Japan, April 1991.

[GEOR91b]*   Georgakopoulos, D., "Multidatabase Recoverability and
Recovery," Proceedings of the First International Workshop on
Interoperability in Multidatabase Systems, Kyoto, Japan, April 1991.

[GRL91]   Georgakopoulos, D., M. Rusinkiewicz, and W. Litwin,
"Chronological Scheduling of Transactions with Temporal Dependencies," in
the VLDB journal, available draft also as a Technical Report from the
Department of Computer Science at the University of Houston, UH-CS-91-03,
February, 1991.

[HEIL91]*   Heiler, S., "Extended Data Type Support in Distributed DBMS
Products: A Technology Assessment and Forecast," TR-170-12-91-165. GTE
Laboratories Incorporated, December 1991.

[HORN91]*   Hornick, M.F., J.D. Morrison, and F. Nayeri, "Integrating
Heterogeneous, Autonomous, Distributed Applications Using the DOM
Prototype," TR-0174-12-91-165. GTE Laboratories Incorporated, December
1991.

[MANO91]   Manola, F. and U. Dayal, "An Overview of PDM: An Object-Oriented
Data Model," in K.R. Dittrich, U. Dayal, and A.P. Buchmann (eds.), On
Object-Oriented Database Systems, Springer-Verlag, 1991.

[MANO91a]*   Manola, F., "Object Data Language Facilities for Multimedia
Data Types," TR-0169-12-91-165. GTE Laboratories Incorporated, December
1991.

[MANO91b]   Manola, F., "The Third-Generation/OODBMS Manifesto, Commercial
Version," SIGMOD Record, Vol. 20, No. 4, December 1991.

[RUSI91]   Rusinkiewicz, M. and D. Georgakopoulos, "Multidatabase
Transactions: Impediments and Opportunities," Compcon Spring '91 Digest of
Papers, San Francisco, February 1991.

[VENT91]   Ventrone, V. and S. Heiler, "Semantic Heterogeneity as a Result
of Domain Evaluation," SIGMOD Record Special Issue: Semantic Issues in
Multidatabase Systems, Vol. 20, No. 4, December 1991.


 >>>>>>>>> 1990

[BREI90]   Breitbart, Y., D. Georgakopoulos, and M. Rusinkiewicz, A.
Silberschatz, "Rigorous Scheduling in Multidatabase Systems," Proceedings
of Workshop in Multidatabases and Semantic Interoperability, Tulsa, pp.
658-667, November 1990.

[BROD90]*   Brodie, M.L., F. Bancilhon, C. Harris, M. Kifer, Y. Masunaga,
E.D. Sacerdoti, K. Tanaka, "Next Generation Database Management Systems
Technology," in Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases, W. Kim, J-M
Nicolas, S. Nishio, (eds.), Elsevier Science Publishers, 1990.

[HEIL90]   Heiler, S., F. Manola and S. Zdonik, "An Object-Oriented
Database Approach to Federated Systems," (unpublished paper), 1990.

[MANO90]   Manola, F., "Object-Oriented Knowledge Bases," AI Expert, 5(3),
5(4), March and April 1990.

[MANO90a]*   Manola, F. and A. Buchmann "A Functional/Relational
Object-Oriented Model for Distributed Object Management: Preliminary
Description" TM-0331-11-90-165. GTE Laboratories Incorporated, December
1990.

[MANO90b]*   Manola, F., M. Hornick, and A. Buchmann "Object Data Model
Facilities for Multimedia Data Types" TM-0332-11-90-165, GTE Laboratories
Incorporated, December 1990.

[MYLO90]*   Mylopoulos, J. and M. Brodie, "Knowledge Bases and Databases:
Current Trends and Future Directions," Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
Vol. 474: Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence: Integration
Aspects, D. Karagiannia, (ed.), Springer-Verlag, New York, 1990.

[RUSI90]   Rusinkiewicz, M., D. Georgakopoulos, and R. Thomas, "RDS: A
Primitive for the Maintenance of Replicated Data Objects," Proceedings of
Second IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, Dallas, pp.
658-667, December 1990.

[SILB90]   Silberschatz, A., M. Stonebraker, and J.D. Ullman (eds.), M.L.
Brodie, P. Buneman, M. Carey, A. Chandra, H. Garcia-Molina, J. Gray, R.
Fagin, D. Lomet, D. Maier, M.A. Niemat, A. Silberschatz, M. Stonebraker, I.
Traiger, J. Ullman, G. Wiederhold, C. Zaniolo, and M. Zemankova, P.A.
Bernstein, W. Kim, H.F. Korth, and A. van Tilborg, (co-authors), "Database
Systems: Achievements and Opportunities," ACM SIGMOD Record, 19, 4,
December 1990; also appeared in Communications of the ACM, Vol. 34, No.10,
pp. 110-120, October 1991.

[STON90]   Stonebraker, M. , L.A. Rowe, B. Lindsay, J. Gray, M. Carey, M.L.
Brodie, P. Bernstein, and D. Beech, "Third-Generation Data Base System
Manifesto," ACM SIGMOD Recored 19, 3, September 1990.

[ZERT90]   Zertuche, D.R. and A.P. Buchmann, "Execution Models for Active
Database Systems: A Comparison," TM-0238-01-90-165, GTE Laboratories
Incorporated, January 1990.


 >>>>>>>>> 1989

[BROD89]   Brodie, M., D. Bobrow, V. Lesser, S. Madnick, D. Tsichritzis,
and C. Hewitt, "Future Artificial Intelligence Requirements for Intelligent
Database Systems" Expert Database Systems: Proceedings From the Second
International Conference, L. Kerschberg (ed.), Benjamin/Cummings, Menlo
Park, CA, 1989.

[BROD89a]   Brodie, M. , J. Mylopoulos, "Future Intelligent Information
Systems: AI and Database Technologies Working Together," in M. Brodie, J.
Mylopoulos, (eds. and contributors), Readings in Artificial Intelligence
and Databases, Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA, 1989.

[MANO89]*   Manola, F., "Applications of Object-Oriented Database
Technology in Knowledge-Based Integrated Information Systems," GTE
Laboratories Incorporated, April 1989.

[MANO89a]*   Manola, F., "Object Model Capabilities For Distributed Object
Management," TM-0149-06-89-165, GTE Laboratories Incorporated, June 1989.

[MANO89b]*   Manola, F., "An Evaluation of Object-Oriented DBMS
Developments," TR-0066-10-89-165, GTE Laboratories Incorporated, October
1989.

[WELC89]   Welch, J.L. and A.P. Sistla, "Object-Based Concurrency Control
and Recovery Mechanisms," TM-0150-06-89-165, GTE Laboratories Incorporated,
June 1989.


 >>>>>>>>> 1988

[MANO88]*   Manola, F., "Distributed Object Management Technology,"
TM-0014-06-88-165, GTE Laboratories Incorporated, June 1988.


 >>>>>>>>> 1987

[MANO87]   Manola, F., "A Personal View of DBMS Security," Database
Security: Status and Prospects, C.E. Landwehr (ed.), Elsevier Science
Publishers B.V., North Holland, 1988, 23-34; TN CS1.1, GTE Laboratories
Incorporated, December 1987.



_[GEOR94a]* _[GEOR94b]*
_[BROD93a]* _[BROD93b]* _[GEOR93a]* _[GEOR93c]* _[GEOR93e]*
_[MANO93a]  _[MANO93c]* _[NAYE93c]* _[NAYE93d]* _[NICO93a]
_[VENT93]*
_[BGR92]    _[BRO92b]*  _[BROD92c]* _[BUCH92]   _[GEOR92]*
_[HEIL92]   _[MANO92]*  _[MANO92a]*
_[BROD91]   _[BROD91a]* _[BUCH91]*  _[GEOR91a]* _[GEOR91b]*
_[GRL91]    _[HEIL91]*  _[HORN91]*  _[MANO91]   _[MANO91a]*
_[MANO91b]  _[RUSI91]   _[VENT91]
_[BREI90]   _[BROD90]*  _[HEIL90]   _[MANO90]   _[MANO90a]*
_[MANO90b]* _[MYLO90]*  _[RUSI90]   _[SILB90]   _[STON90]
_[ZERT90]
_[BROD89]   _[BROD89a]  _[MANO89]*  _[MANO89a]* _[MANO89b]*
_[WELC89]
_[MANO88]*
_[MANO87]


>53  KEOBJ, OO DSP micro-kernel

From: [e-mail] (Chris Bidaut)
Subject: Object kernel for DSP & RISC processors
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1993 22:48:46
Organization: Softia, Inc.

This is an announcement for KEOBJ, an object-oriented micro-kernel for Digital
Signal Processors (DSP) and RISC processors.  This is also a request for
comments from the Internet community. Feedback on the architecture and
programming interface will be appreciated and incorporated into the next
release.


1 DESCRIPTION
-------------

KEOBJ is an object-oriented micro-kernel optimized for advanced embedded
applications, and it particularly targets Digital Signal Processors (DSP)
and RISC processors in multimedia environments.

Its main features are object-orientation, real-time behavior, signal processing
support, micro-kernel architecture and scalability.

1.1 Object-orientation

The kernel is a collection of system classes exported to the applications
(e.g Process, Thread, Memory, ...).
An object name space provides a way to locate any public object (e.g. IPC,
memory) using a symbolic path.
The kernel is written in C++ and is easily portable.

1.2 Real-time behavior

The design stresses fast response time and predictability to qualify for the
real-time label. The kernel is reentrant and preeemptable.

1.3 Signal processing support

Besides providing an architecture appropriate for most general purpose
applications, the kernel incorporates dedicated features for signal processing
applications. This includes two phases interrupt processing, time-deadline
scheduling, Inter Process Communications, multiple memory pools, awareness of
the constraints due to a single data type (word).

1.4 Micro-kernel architecture

Probably the most important feature of the kernel is the ability to be
extended at run-time with new services such as devices drivers, public
classes (IPC, file systems, windowing systems). Applications and system
services are dynamically loaded by a COFF compatible loader.

The core kernel is customizable at run-time through a personality mechanism
to emulate other environments (Operating systems) or to tailor the processes
environments.

1.5 Scalability

The API supports physical and virtual memory organizations with the same
semantics.

Applications source code will be portable across DSP and RISC processors.

The architecture supports symmetric multiprocessing and distribution (Available
by mid-1994).


2 WHERE TO FIND THE PACKAGE
---------------------------

A set of documentation about KEOBJ is available via anonymous ftp on the
following Internet server:
        netcom.com (192.100.81.100) in file /pub/softia/keobj.zip


If you do not have access to Internet, contact me for other delivery media at:
Chris Bidaut            [e-mail]
Telephone [phone]    Fax [phone]


>54  MindFrame for Windows

From: [e-mail] (Geoff Lee)
Subject: "MindFrame for Windows" (freeware) application is available for ftp
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1993 21:07:28 GMT

    MindFrame for Windows 1.0 Release Note
    ======================================

mndframe.zip (MindFrame for Windows) is available for anonymous ftp
on ftp.cica.indiana.edu. It is currently in /pub/pc/win3/uploads.

"MindFrame for Windows" is a freeware application developed to
teach an object modeling approach presented in the
book: "Object-Oriented GUI Application Development" Geoff Lee,
Prentice-Hall, 1993, ISBN 0-13-363086-2.

This application is useful in many other areas as well, for
example, in Bible studying (metaphors, parables, prophecies,
types), neural modeling, ecological modeling, and task modeling.
There are 20 sample applications covering these areas. There
are also description of each of the sample application in the
on-line Help. Read "About MindFrame..." help topic for more
information.

This is a copyrighted software, but you can freely redistribute if
you keep the release intact.

The following is the content of mdnframe.txt file in the .zip file:

1. Installation Procedure:
   DOS> mkdir MndFrame
   DOS> cd MndFrame
   DOS> copy b:MndFrame.zip   (or where you kept the mndframe.zip file)
   DOS> unzip -d mndframe.zip  (extract files into subdirectories)
   DOS> copy grid.vbx \windows\systems (your local Windows system directory)

2. Running the application:
   . In Windows, open your "File Manager"
   . Go to \MndFrame directory
   . Find the MndFrame.exe file
   . Drag the MndFrame.exe file icon into a "Program Manager" window
   . Open the MndFrame.exe program

3. Sample applications:
   Once you are in the MindFrame application, open files in the
   \MndFrame\Samples subdirectories. There are 20 sample files organized
   according to areas of application (e.g., object modeling, neural
   modeling, bible studying). You can also find description of each of
   these samples in the On-Line Help file.

4. On-line help:
   Use the "About MindFrame..." menu item in the "Help" menu to learn more
   about this application. There is an on-line help provided for this
   application. Read through the help topics to learn about using this
   application.

5. Files in this release:
   mndframe.txt: this file.
   mdnframe.exe: the executable file of "MindFrame for Windows" freeware.
   mndframe.hlp: the on-line help file for "MindFrame for Windows".
   biblnote.ps:  the PostScript file of help text on using this application
                to study metaphors, parables, types, and prophecies in the
                Holy Bible.
   grid.vbx:     the visual basic grid control that is necessary to run this
                application. It must be copied into your local "system"
                directory for Windows (\windows\system in most cases).
   samples\*:    in this directory, there are 20 samples (*.frm files) in
                the subdirectories for each application area
                (e.g., objmodel, ecology, neural, parable).

New MindFrame anonymous FTP Directory:

It has been moved to a more permanent directory: /pub/pc/win3/programr.

>55  ACE Lib, C++ Networking

From: [e-mail] (Douglas C. Schmidt)
Subject: Re: C++ and Semaphores
Date: 22 Nov 1993 19:27:00 -0800
Organization: University of California at Irvine: ICS Dept.

       THE "ADAPTIVE COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT" (ACE) LIBRARY:

      A Collection of C++ Network Programming Components
      --------------------------------------------------

    The ACE library is available for anonymous ftp from the
ics.uci.edu (128.195.1.1) host in the gnu/C++_wrappers.tar.Z file
(approximately .4 meg compressed).  This release contains contains the
source code, documentation, and example test drivers for a number of
C++ wrapper libraries and higher-level network programming foundation
classes developed as part of the ADAPTIVE transport system project at
the University of Calfornia, Irvine.

    . The C++ wrappers encapsulate many of the user-level BSD and
      System V Release 4 IPC facilities such as sockets, TLI,
      select and poll, named pipes and STREAM pipes, the mmap
      family of memory-mapped file commands, System V IPC (i.e.,
      shared memory, semaphores, message queues), and explicit
      dynamic linking (e.g., dlopen/dlsym/dlclose) using
      type-secure, object-oriented interfaces.

    . The higher-level network programming foundation classes
      integrate and enhance the lower-level C++ wrappers to
      support the configuration of concurrent network daemons
      composed of monolithic and/or stackable services

    Many of the C++ wrappers and higher-level components have been
described in issues of the C++ Report, as well as in the proceedings
of (1) the 2nd Annual C++ World conference held in Dallas, Texas in
October, 1993, (2) the 11th Annual Sun Users Group Conference held in
San Jose, CA in December, 1993, and (3) the 2nd International Workshop
on Configurable Distributed Systems held at CMU in Pittsburgh, PA in
March, 1994.  A relatively complete set of documentation and extensive
examples are included in the release.  A mailing list is available for
discussing bug fixes, enhancements, and porting issues regarding ACE.
Please send mail to [e-mail] if you'd like to
become part of the mailing list.

CONTENTS OF THE RELEASE

    The following subdirectories are included in this release:

    . apps    -- complete applications written using the ACE wrappers
    . bin      -- utility programs for building this release such as g++dep
    . build      -- a separate subdirectory that keeps links into the main
             source tree in order to facilitate multi-platform
             build-schemes
    . include -- symbolic links to the include files for the release
    . lib      -- object archive libraries for each C++ wrapper library
    . libsrc  -- the source code for the following C++ wrappers:
            ASX -- higher-level C++ network programming foundation classes
            Get_Opt -- a C++ version of the UNIX getopt utility
            IPC_SAP -- wrapper for BSD sockets
            IPC_SAP_FIFO -- wrapper for FIFOS (named pipes)
            IPC_SAP_SPIPE -- wrapper for SVR4 STREAM pipes and connld
            Log_Msg -- library API for a local/remote logging facility
            Mem_Map -- wrapper for BSD mmap() memory mapped files
            Message_Queues -- wrapper for SysV message queues
            Reactor -- wrapper for select() and poll()
            Semaphores -- wrapper for SysV semaphores
            Server_Daemon -- a wrapper for dynamically linking
            Shared_Memory -- wrapper for SysV shared memory
            Shared_Malloc -- wrapper for SysV/BSD shared mallocs
            TLI_SAP -- wrapper for SVR4 TLI
    . tests -- programs that illustrate how to use the various wrappers

    Please refer to the INSTALL file for information on how to
build and test the ACE wrappers.  The BIBLIOGRAPHY file contains
information on where to obtain articles that describe the ACE wrappers
and the ADAPTIVE system in more detail.

    Also, please note that there is a companion tar file called
C++_wrappers_doc.tar.Z, which is approximately 1.5 Meg compressed.
This file is in the same ftp/gnu directory as the source code
distribution.  In this file is the following:

    . doc      -- LaTeX documentation (in both latex and .ps format)
    . papers  -- postscript versions of various papers describing ACE

COPYRIGHT INFORMATION

    You are free to do anything you like with this code.  However,
you may not do anything to this code that will prevent it from being
distributed freely in its original form (such as copyrighting it,
etc.).  Moreover, if you have any improvements, suggestions, and or
comments, I'd like to hear about it!  It would be great to see this
distributed evolve into a comprehensive, robust, and well-documented
C++ class library that would be freely available to everyone.
Natually, I am not responsible for any problems caused by using these
C++ wrappers.

    Thanks,

        Douglas C. Schmidt
        ([e-mail])
        Department of Information and Computer Science
        University of California, Irvine
        Irvine, CA 92717
        Work #: [phone]
        FAX #: [phone]

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

    Special thanks to Paul Stephenson for devising the recursive
Makefile scheme that underlies this distribution.  Also thanks to Olaf
Kruger for explaining how to instantiate templates for shared
libraries on SunOS 4.
--
Douglas C. Schmidt
Department of Information and Computer Science
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92717. Work #: [phone]; FAX #: [phone]


>56  Teaching Intro to OO Slides, T. Budd

From: [e-mail] (Tim Budd)
Subject: Re: Slides on OOP or OMT wanted
Date: 8 Nov 1993 07:46:08 GMT
Organization: DAIMI, Computer Science Dept. at Aarhus University

>...

I also have a series of slides that I have developed for use with my
text ``an introduction to object-oriented programming'' (timothy budd,
addison-wesley publishers).  These can be found at cs.orst.edu
directory pub/budd/oopintro/slides/*, or there is a mail server
called [e-mail] and if you say
    send oopintro slides chapter1
and so on you can get them via e-mail.  Warning, it yields a lot of
e-mail, so do it one at a time.
--tim


>57  Value Dependence Graphs

From: Michael D. Ernst <[e-mail]>
Subject:  Value dependence graphs paper available
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1993 00:59:36 GMT

The paper "Value Dependence Graphs: Representation Without Taxation",
which describes a new intermediate representation which is particularly
amenable to optimization, is available.  (This version corrects typos and
clarifies a few minor points that may not have been completely clear in
the version which will appear in the POPL 94 proceedings.)  You can get a
copy in three ways:

1.  Via anonymous ftp, obtain file research.microsoft.com:/pub/papers/vdg.ps
    (or file vdg.ps635 if you have a HP LaserJet 4 printer).
2.  Reply to [e-mail] requesting PostScript by email,
    and I will send you the PostScript file of your choice.  (The files are
    483K and 1018K bytes, respectively.)
3.  Reply to [e-mail] sending me your physical mail
    address, and I will mail you a hardcopy.

The abstract is:

The value dependence graph (VDG) is a sparse dataflow-like representation
that simplifies program analysis and transformation.  It is a functional
representation that represents control flow as data flow and makes
explicit all machine quantities, such as stores and I/O channels.  We are
developing a compiler that builds a VDG representing a program, analyzes
and transforms the VDG, then produces a control flow graph (CFG) [ASU86]
from the optimized VDG.  This framework simplifies transformations and
improves upon several published results.  For example, it enables more
powerful code motion than [CLZ86, FOW87], eliminates as many redundancies
as [AWZ88, RWZ88] (except for redundant loops), and provides important
information to the code scheduler [BR91].  We exhibit a fast, one-pass
method for elimination of partial redundancies that never performs
redundant code motion [KRS92, DS93] and is simpler than the classical
[MR79, Dha91] or SSA [RWZ88] methods.  These results accrue from
eliminating the CFG from the analysis/transformation phases and using
demand dependences in preference to control dependences.

The paper's full citation is:

@InProceedings{WeiseCES94,
  author =      "Daniel Weise and Roger F. Crew and Michael Ernst and
            Bjarne Steensgaard",
    title =      "Value Dependence Graphs:  Representation Without Taxation",
    booktitle =     POPL94,
    pages =      "297-310",
    year =     1994,
    month =     jan,
    address =     "Portland, OR"
}

>58  Various on OO

I think our ftp-site should be mentioned under the PAPERS section of
appendix E of the comp.object FAQ. There are a number of interesting
papers about Object-Orientation, in particular about a new object-oriented
model, called 'Composition Filters'. Here is the uuencoded compressed
version of a postscript document that contains abstracts of the papers
which are available via ftp (ftp.cs.utwente.nl - /pub/doc/TRESE) or
WWW (http://www_trese.cs.utwente.nl - Recent Publications of the TRESE
project). You may also view this document from our WWW-site.

Greetings,

Richard.
---
TRESE project
Email: [e-mail]
TRESE WWW Server: http://www_trese.cs.utwente.nl

>59  ILU OMG CORBA

From:    Bill Janssen <[e-mail]>

ILU is a module system / object RPC system / CORBA implementation for
programming that supports object interfaces to modules.  It supports
inter-calling between modules written in different languages
(currently only C++, C, Modula-3 and Common Lisp are supported), as
well as inter-calling between modules running in different address
spaces.  It provides an implementation of object RPC compatible with
the OMG CORBA 1.2 spec (it will compile OMG IDL and generate OMG
compliant code for OMG-specified languages), as well as being
compatible with Sun RPC (existing Sun RPC services can be described as
ILU modules) and other RPC systems.  It is written in ANSI C, and
includes a metaobject protocol for configuration and flexibility.  The
source code is freely available.  More information is available at
ftp://parcftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/ilu/ilu.html.

Bill

>60 Internet Info CDROM, including FAQs

Walnut Creek CDROM announces the release of the Internet Info CDROM.
This CDROM contains 12,000 documents about computers and networks:

        * Answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).
        * Internet RFCs and IENs.
        * Computer security Documents.
        * Internet Network maps.
        * Usenet technical discussion Archives.
        * Ftp sites lists and descriptions of the archives they hold.
        * Extensive bibliographies and technical book reviews.
        * documents and standards from IEEE, ISO, NIST, ANSI and others.

The price is $39.95.  S&H is $5 for US/Canada/Mexico, and $10 for overseas.
If you live in California, please add sales tax.  You can pay by cash, check,
money order or Visa/MC/Dis/Amex.  This CDROM is fully guaranteed, if you are
dissatisfied with this disc for any reason whatsoever, you can return it for
an exchange or refund.

        Walnut Creek CDROM
        1547 Palos Verdes Mall, Suite 260
        Walnut Creek, CA  94596

        1 800 786-9907
        1 510 674-0783
        1 510 674-0821 FAX

        [e-mail]

The disc is available for FREE to anyone that has contributed any of their
own work.  This includes FAQ maintainers, RFC authors, etc.  Just email me
your name, address, and the name of the files(s) that you wrote.  Overseas
addresses are ok.

If you would like a more detailed list of other CDROM titles published by
Walnut Creek CDROM, you can ftp the latest list from
ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/cdrom/catalog, or send email to [e-mail].

>61  Metrics

From: [e-mail] (Dan Proskauer)
Subject: Re: Wanted: Data on McCabe and Halstead Comple
Organization: Teradyne, Inc. Boston MA
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1993 20:58:33 GMT

    There is some publically available McCabe and Halstead analysis
software for C in gatekeeper.dec.com /pub/usenet/com.sources.unix/volume20/metrics.
I believe there is some explanation of the metrics along with it.  Some other
references are:

    The Art of Software Testing, Myers

    "An Internal Approach to Testing Horizontally Reusable
     Software", Proceedings of the 5th Annual STC Conference, 93
        Goldfedder (Overall of where McCabe fits in to A testing
        process)


>62  Amadeus, persistence

From: [e-mail] (Aoife Cox)
Subject: Re: In Search of Persistence
Date: 14 Dec 1993 20:04:38 +1100
Organization: University of Western Sydney

>I have been searching the net trying to find any locations for papers about
>implementation of persistence object systems or about persistence and OOPL.  As
>yet, I have not found anything remotely related.

>Are there any ftp sites with such papers that someone can direct me to?
There should be some papers on the Amadeus system, developed by the
Distributed Systems Group at Trinity College, Dublin, ftp-able from
ftp.cs.tcd.ie. Look in the /pub/tcd/tech-reports directory....

Hope this helps.

Aoife


>63  Chorus,Dist,RT,MicroK

From Marc Maathuis ([e-mail]):

You may want to take a look at CHORUS, a distributed real-time
microkernel that can be combined with the CHORUS/MiX subsystem, which
is a modular, fully compatible UNIX System V (R3.2 or R4.0)
implementation.  There is also an OO subsystem named COOL (CHORUS
Object Oriented Layer). CHORUS runs on i386/i486, 680x0, SPARC,
transputer and on several other processors.

CHORUS is available as a source technology. In Jan 94, SCO and Chorus
will release a *binary* product for the PC market: "CHORUS/Fusion for
SCO UNIX" is binary compatible with SCO UNIX and offers real-time
functionality (POSIX 1003.1b and .1c, i.e. the former .4 and .4a
interfaces) and clustering functionality.

COOL provides a distributed OO programming environment for
C++.  COOL supports a set of system calls that allow the creation of
dynamic objects. These objects can be sent messages in a location
transparent way, they can be migrated between address spaces and sites
and they can be stored in a persistent store; this is done in a
transparent way, as an extension of the C++ language.

There are several technical reports (in PostScript format) on CHORUS
and on COOL available via anonymous FTP from Chorus systemes, France:
ftp.chorus.fr [192.33.15.3], directory pub/chorus-reports. See the file
"index" for an overview.

There is also a set of ~90 slides on Chorus and CHORUS available in
the directory pub/chorus-slides/CS-TR-92-64 (PostScript, versions 1-up
and 2-up).

If VTT is a public research lab, then you might be interested by the fact
that Chorus systemes has special programs for universities. For more
information on offering, conditions, etc, ftp to ftp.chorus.fr and get
the following ASCII files
   - pub/README
   - pub/academic/README
   - pub/academic/offerings
If you have questions, you may contact Didier Irlande <[e-mail]>
for license issues or Xavier Galleri <[e-mail]> for technical
issues.



APPENDIX F  MAGAZINES, JOURNALS AND NEWSLETTERS
===============================================


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--------------------


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---------------

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----------
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--------------------------------------
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---------------
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-----------------------------------------

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-----------------------

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-----------------------------

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