MAGE: a distributed programming model

Writing distributed programs is difficult. To ease this task, we introduce a new programming abstraction which we call a mobility attribute. Mobility attributes provide a syntax that describes the mobility semantics of program components. Programmers attach mobility attributes to program components...

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Published in:21st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2001) pp. 303 - 312
Main Authors: Barr, E., Pandey, R., Huangs, M.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2001
Subjects:
Computer architecture
Computer science
Costs
Distributed computing
Laboratories
Large-scale systems
Logic programming
Object oriented modeling
Programming profession
Writing
ISBN:0769510779, 9780769510774
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Summary:Writing distributed programs is difficult. To ease this task, we introduce a new programming abstraction which we call a mobility attribute. Mobility attributes provide a syntax that describes the mobility semantics of program components. Programmers attach mobility attributes to program components to dynamically control the placement of these components within the network. Mobility attributes intercept component invocations and decide whether and where to move a component before the component executes. This allows the programmer to improve her program's runtime efficiency by colocating components and resources. We present MAGE, an object oriented distributed system, that supports mobility attributes and illustrates their utility.
ISBN:0769510779
9780769510774
DOI:10.1109/ICDSC.2001.918960