simmel@samsung.com (Sergiu Simmel) (10/17/90)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KALA and EMILY Typed Persistent Data Management for Object Management Systems What: A series of three Birds-of-a-Feather sessions Who: Sergiu S. Simmel (Samsung Software America) and Ivan Godard (Penobscot Research Center) Where: OOPSLA/ECOOP '90 place will be posted [watch for the general BOF schedule] When: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings (tentative) time will be posted [watch for the general BOF schedule] Length: 1.5 - 2 hours (depending on discussion) How: 1 hour dual presentation accompanied by ample discussion Abstract Kala is a persistent data management technology and product developed by Penobscot Research Center and a group of other corporate partners. It forms the bottom layer of an Persistent Object Management System or an OODBMS. Kala provides secure and performant management of very complex distributed, evolving, and heterogeneous interconnected data. Kala is an untyped facility. Kala provides support for arbitrary versioning models, nested long and persistent transactions, access control without ACLs, configurations. While Kala is an untyped facility, Emily is a universal data typing system. Emily typing provides safe data access, automatic coercion, and multilingual interoperability. Emily's universality insures that all common programming languages' typing schemes can be mapped to Emily with no information loss. Emily allows typing of data whose structure is not describable by ordinary typing schemes, such as predicated unions, heterogeneous sequences, and computed structure fields. Emily is used to type persistent data held in Kala managed stores. Our sessions will introduce both Kala and Emily, and allow for ample discussions about the functionality embedded in them, as well as the architecture Kala and Emily can be part of. Tuesday: This session will provide a basic introduction to Kala Wednesday: This session will provide a basic introduction to Emily Thursday: This session will provide an advanced introduction to Kala . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POLL To measure the level of interest in these topics, please reply if you contemplate attending any of these sessions. This is _not_ a commit- ment, only a measurement. Thank you. Please indicate name, affiliation, address, and e-mail address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ================================+========================================== Sergiu Saul Simmel | VOICE: 508-685-6550 x131 Samsung Software America, Inc. | FAX: 508-685-4940 One Corporate Drive | INTERNET: simmel@samsung.com Andover, MA 01810-2442 | UUCP: ...!uunet!samsung!simmel ================================+========================================== -- ================================+========================================== Sergiu Saul Simmel | VOICE: 508-685-6550 x131 Samsung Software America, Inc. | FAX: 508-685-4940 One Corporate Drive | INTERNET: simmel@samsung.com