Module Interconnection Frameworks for a Real-Time Spreadsheet

Abstract

The first month of this work has been very fruitful, yielding a detailed understanding of how MIF can be used to implement specific features of a real-time distributed spreadsheet. A number of ideas will be presented in this report. These ideas envision a system which combines the advantages of high- level system design with the very rapid implementation/prototyping capabilities already demonstrated in numerous applications by the ControlCalc system. In particular, a MIF system solves a number of problems of distributed programming, and of integrating service provided by the spreadsheet into a large scale modular system implemented in non-spreadsheet languages. The focus of the investigation so far has been Polylith, a software bus system developed at the University of Maryland.

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 30, 1993
Accession Number
ADA267317

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