gdheinze@faui43.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Gerhard Heinzel ) (11/26/90)
My master thesis in Computer Science is concerned with the application
of data flow modells to the communication in distributed systems.
In order to characterize the various existing approaches, I use a basic
modell of communication which looks like this:
- communicating structures consist of a graph where edges can connect two
or more vertices
- vertices can have (possibly several) potential behaviors (roles)
- a potential behavior defines the way vertices are to react to the
arrival of messages
- messages travel along the edges
- edges have defined semantics
I am interested in identifying the dimensions of the design space
for this problem. Especially interesting seem to be problems of
changing structures dynamically, describing structures in a declarative
way, reusing structures and defining structures that not only carry data
but perform functions on them (like building local sums).
Since the first phase of this work will be a survey of existing ideas,
I would like you to supply references related to this topic. Please use
email rather than posting. If there is interest in the results, I will
summarize and make a copy ftp-able.
Thank you in advance
Gerhard
gdheinze@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de