Process migration is the act of transferring a process between two machines. It enables
dynamic load distribution, fault resilience, eased system administration, and data access …

We survey parallel programming models and languages using six criteria to assess their
suitability for realistic portable parallel programming. We argue that an ideal model should …

We have found many programming problems for which neither procedural nor object-
oriented programming techniques are sufficient to clearly capture some of the important …

The use of hierarchy is an important component of object-oriented design. Hierarchy allows
the use of type families, in which higher level supertypes capture the behavior that all of their …

A new operating system kernel, called the x-kernel, provides an explicit architecture for
constructing and composing network protocols. Experiments in implementing and evaluating …

Emerald is an object-based language and system designed for the construction of
distributed programs. An explicit goal of Emerald is support for object mobility; objects in …

Much of the current work in distributed, object-oriented systems is based on the assumption
that objects form a single ontological class. This class consists of all entities that can be fully …

When distributed systems first appeared, they were programmed in traditional sequential
languages, usually with the addition of a few library procedures for sending and receiving …

Recent years have seen the development of several foundational models for statically typed
object-oriented programming. But despite their intuitive similarity, differences in the technical …

Although successive generations of middleware (such as RPC, CORBA, and DCOM) have
made it easier to connect distributed programs, the process of distributed application …