A Constructive Approach to the Design of Distributed Systems

The underlying model of distributed systems is that of loosely coupled components r running in parallel and communicating by message passing. Description, construction and evolution of these systems is facilitated by separating the system structure, as a set of components and their interconnections, from the functional description of individual component behaviour. Furthermore, component reuse and structuring flexibility is enhanced if components are context independent ie. selfcontained with a well defined interface for component interaction. The Conic environment for distributed programming supports this model. In particular, Conic provides a separate configuration language for the description, construction and evolution of distributed systems. The Conic environment has demonstrated a working environment which supports system distribution, r reconfiguration and extension. We had initially supposed that Conic might pose difficult challenges for us as software designers. For example, ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1990
• Where: ICDCS
• Authors: Jeff Kramer, Jeff Magee, Anthony Finkelstein
• Keywords: Conic, Conic Environment, Distributed And Parallel Computing, Distributed Systems, ICDCS 1990