USENIX Technical Program - Abstract - Domain-Specific Languages 99
A Collaboration Specification Language
Du Li and Richard R. Muntz, University of California at Los Angeles
Abstract
COCA (Collaborative Objects Coordination Architecture) was
proposed as a novel means to model and support
collaborations over the Internet.
Our approach separates coordination policies from user interfaces
and the policies are specified in a logic-based language.
Over the past year, both the collaboration model and the specification
language have been substantially refined and evaluated through
our experience in building real-life collaboration systems.
This paper presents the design of the specification language
and illustrates the main ideas with a few simple design examples.
Semantics, implementation, runtime support, and applications
are also covered but not as the focus of this paper.
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