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CSA, a Hierarchical Object-Oriented Architecture for Distributed Office Systems

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Kommunikation in Verteilten Systemen

Part of the book series: Informatik-Fachberichte ((INFORMATIK,volume 130))

Abstract

This paper outlines the architecture for office communication being developed by ESPRIT Project 237, Communication Systems Architecture (CSA).

Starting from a particular sociological model of the office environment, CSA is developed around the concept of a domain, which is a set of intensively interacting systems and resources, typically belonging to the same organisation.

The architectural model of a domain is a layered abstract machine hierarchy. Each layer solves a specific problem to gain a unique single system image for the application programmer independent from heterogeneity, distribution or different architectures outside a domain.

The general unifying concept within this architecture is the CSA object model, which is implemented by an abstract machine hierarchy.

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  1. Philips GmbH Forschungslaboratorium Hamburg, Vogt-Koelln-Str. 30, D-2000, Hamburg 54, Deutschland

    J.-P. Behr, U. Killat, R. Kraemer & R. Stecher

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    Nina Gerner

  2. Lehrstuhl Informatik IV, RWTH Aachen, Templergraben 64, 5100, Aachen, Deutschland

    Otto Spaniol

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Behr, JP., Killat, U., Kraemer, R., Stecher, R. (1987). CSA, a Hierarchical Object-Oriented Architecture for Distributed Office Systems. In: Gerner, N., Spaniol, O. (eds) Kommunikation in Verteilten Systemen. Informatik-Fachberichte, vol 130. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71655-3_30

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