Thread transparency in information flow middleware

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2218, Issue , 2001, Pages 121-140

  Koster, Rainer ^a   Black, Andrew P ^b   Huang, Jie ^b   Walpole, Jonathan ^b   Pu, Calton ^c  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; PIPELINES; SCHEDULING;

ACTIVITY MODELING; APPLICATION PROGRAMMERS; HIGH LEVEL DESCRIPTION; HIGH-LEVEL ABSTRACTION; MIDDLEWARE FRAMEWORKS; PROGRAMMING MODELS; REMOTE METHOD INVOCATIONS; TIMING REQUIREMENTS;

MIDDLEWARE;

EID: 38149088962     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45518-3_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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