cfry@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (C.Fry - Inst. Computer Research) (09/24/88)
The Advanced Networked Systems
Architecture (ANSA) Project
by
Prof. John Dobson
of
Computing Laboratory
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.
Abstract
The Advanced Networked Systems Architecture (ANSA) project is a
U.K. research project, shortly to become a European project,
which is intended to provide an architecture for interworking
computer systems that embodies and exploits the best distributed
computing system concepts, and that will become the basis of fu-
ture international standards in the area of open application sys-
tems.
The talk will first briefly review the themes which formed the
basis for the development of ANSA. These themes are: the theory
of systems architecture, the concept of human-centred design, the
concept of distribution transparency, assumptions about the
development of technology, and the results of a decade of ad-
vanced research into distributed systems. The talk will then
describe the basic models and framework for ANSA, the rules for
the use of these models and framework, and the method of
representing the architecture. Finally, the current status of
the project and its demonstrator will be outlined and future
plans indicated.
DATE: Wednesday, September 28, 1988
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
PLACE: University of Waterloo, Davis Centre, Room 1302
Everyone is welcome. Refreshments served.