Research Directions in Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming

Gul Agha is Director of the Open Systems Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science. Peter Wegner is Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Brown University. Akinori Yonezawa is Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Part 1 Language issues: abstraction and modularity mechanisms for concurrent computing, Gul Agha et al; trade-offs between reasoning and modelling, Peter Wegner; a survey of logic programming-based object-oriented languages, Andrew Davison; analysis of inheritance anomaly in object-oriented concurrent programming languages, Satoshi Matsuoka and Akinori Yonezawa; composing active objects, Oscar Nierstrasz. Part 2 Programming constructs: supporting modularity in highly-parallel programs, Andrew A. Chien; multiple-concurrency control policies in an object-oriented programming system, Gail E. Kaiser et al; ports for objects in concurrent logic programs, Sverker Janson et al. Part 3 Language design: specifying concurrent languages and systems with "delta"-grammars, Simon M. Kaplan et al; interaction abstract machines, Jean-Marc Andreoli et al; CC++ - a declarative concurrent object-oriented programming notation, K. Mani Chandy and Carl Kesselman; a logical theory of concurrent objects and its realization in the Maude Language, Jose Meseguer. Part 4 Operating Systems: CHOICES - a parallel object-oriented operating system, Roy H. Campbell and Nayeem Islam; COSMOS - an operating system for a fine-grain concurrent computer, Waldemar Horwat et al. Part 5 Performance monitoring: monitoring concurrent object-based programs, Bruce A. Delagiet et al.