Design and evaluation of a distributed object-oriented communication system for EMS application development

Author

Pendergast, Mark O.

Author_Institution

Decision & Inf. Sci., Florida Univ., Gainesville, FL, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

27-30 Mar 1991

Firstpage

309

Lastpage

315

Abstract

The author describes an architecture for implementing electronic meeting system (EMS) applications in an object-oriented programming (OOP) environment (C++). EMS applications enable group tasks such as negotiation, problem solving, and system design to be performed. The OO-EMS architecture is a three tier structure having layers for base classes, tools, and applications. The design addresses concurrency control, addressing, duplicated objects, and broadcast communications. Implementation details include the results of performance testing on IBM token ring and AT&T STARLAN local area networks

Keywords

electronic messaging; local area networks; object-oriented programming; programming environments; AT&T STARLAN; C++; EMS application development; IBM token ring; broadcast communications; concurrency control; distributed object-oriented communication system; duplicated objects; electronic meeting system; group tasks; local area networks; negotiation; performance testing; problem solving; system design; Application software; Broadcasting; Concurrency control; Electronic equipment testing; Information technology; Local area networks; Medical services; Problem-solving; System testing; Token networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Communications, 1991. Conference Proceedings., Tenth Annual International Phoenix Conference on

Conference_Location

Scottsdale, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2133-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCCC.1991.113827

Filename

113827