CCSL Home Page (original) (raw)

Convergent Computing Systems Laboratory

The Convergent Computing Systems Laboratory is a part of the School of Computer Scienceat the University of Massachusetts. Amherst.

People:

Jack Wileden, Principal Investigator

Graduate Students:

• Nathaniel E. Baughman
• John V. E. Ridgway

Former Students:

• Daniel J. Barrett
• Alan Kaplan

Research Projects:

• SPIN - Support for Persistence, Interoperability, and Naming
• PolySPIN - Polylingual SPIN
• Jspin - Support for Persistence, Interoperability, and Naming in Java

Selected Conference and Workshop Publications

• Ridgway, John V. E. and Wileden, Jack C.,Toward Class Evolution in Persistent Java[tm], Third International Workshop on Persistence and Java, Tiburon, CA, September, 1998.
  • Abstract
• Ridgway, John V. E., Thrall, Craig, and Wileden, Jack C.,Toward Assessing Approaches to Persistence for Java[tm], Second International Workshop on Persistence and Java, Half Moon Bay, CA, August, 1997.
  • Abstract
  • Postscript
• Kaplan, A., Myrestrand, G.A., Ridgway, J.V.E., and Wileden, J.C.,Our SPIN on Persistent Java: the JavaSPIN approach, First International Workshop on Persistent Java, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, September 1996.
  • Abstract
  • Postscript
• Barrett, D.J.,Kaplan, A.and Wileden, J.C.,Automated Support for Seamless Interoperability in Polylingual Software Systems, The Fourth Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, San Francisco, CA, USA, October, 1996.
  • Abstract
  • Postscript
• Kaplan, A.and Wileden, J.C.,Toward Painless Polylingual Persistence, Seventh International Workshop on Persistent Object Systems, Cape May, NJ, USA, May 1996.
  • Abstract
  • Postscript
• Kaplan, A.and Wileden, J.C.,Formalization and Application of a Unifying Model for Name Management, The Third Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Washington, D.C., USA, October, 1995.
  • Abstract
  • Postscript
• Kaplan, A.and Wileden, J.C.,Conch: Experimenting with Enhanced Name Management for Persistent Object Systems, Sixth International Workshop on Persistent Object Systems, Tarascon, Provence, France, September 1994.
  • Abstract
  • Postscript
• Kaplan, A. and Wileden, J.C.,Name Management and Object Technology for Advanced Software,Proceedings of the International Symposium on Object Technologies for Advanced Software, number 742 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Kanazawa, Japan, November 1993, pp.371--392.
  • Abstract
  • Postscript

Position Papers

• Kaplan, A.and Wileden, J.C.,Foundations for Transparent Data Exchange and Integration, The Conference on Scientific and Technical Data Exchange and Integration, Natcher Conference Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA, December 1997.

Maintained by John Ridgway ridgway@cs.umass.edu