TOPIC-SE: a tool-based open platform for integration of control in software environments
✍ Scribed by Karim Foughali; Bertil Folliot
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 771 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0950-5849
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✦ Synopsis
This paper presents the design and implementation of an open platform working in a heterogeneous distributed environment. It is based on a network message server that provides uniform and transparent control integration for tools management. The work focuses on two key requirements for inter-working: tool interface specification based on service signatures and an inter-tool communication protocol based on message passing. Moreover, a script based language allows sequential and parallel high level services to be easily built from existing basic services. Execution efficiency is mostly achieved by a load balancing manager in order to benefit from the available computation power.