COSMOS - a configuable message system for cooperative work
(UK government
funded (Alvey) project, 1986-1989). QMW was the lead partner and formulated the
system architecture. Our work resulted in the following publications:
The Cosmos Laboratory
Wilbur, S. and Dollimore, J.in Computer Augmented Teamwork: A Guided Tour Van Nostrand Reinhold (1992).
Towards a Language for Defining Structure in Message-Based Cooperative Working,
Dollimore, J., Coulouris, G. and Roberts, T.
Proceedings of Conference in Multi-user Interfaces, Crete, September, 1990, pp 253-268, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. North-Holland.
Experiences in Building a Configurable CSCW System
Jean Dollimore and Sylvia Wilbur
Proceedings of ECSCW - 89.
Experiences with MacApp in building a user interface for the Cosmos messaging system
Jean Dollimore and Stathis Gikas,
Tools, Europe, 1989.
The Design of an Object Server as a Storage Module
for the Cosmos Messaging System
Jean Dollimore, Euteco 88, Vienna.
SPIRIT-2 High Performance Workstation (ESPRIT project #2484, 1989-93).
In
the distributed systems group at QMW a distributed shared object extension was
added to Smalltalk-80 and evaluated in several applications.
Our work resulted in the following publications:
The Private Access Channel:a security mechanism for shared distributed objects
Jean Dollimore and Wang Xu.
Proceedings Tools Europe 93 France. Pages, 211-222, Prentice Hall, March 1993.
The Design of a System for Distributing Shared Objects
Dollimore, J., Miranda, E. and Wang Xu, Computer Journal Vol. 34, No. 6, 1991.
Fine Grained Object Migration: Model, Mechanisms and Experience
Jean Dollimore, Claudio Nascimento and Wang Xu,Presented at International Workshop on Distributed Object Management, Edmonton Canada Aug 18-21 1992