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Structural biology metaphors applied to the design of a distributed object system

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Parallel and Distributed Processing (IPPS 1999)

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In this paper we present the basic ideas of a distributed object middleware for network computing. We argue that when building complex systems out of components one can emulate the lock and key mechanisms used by proteins to recognize each other.

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  1. Computer Sciences Department, Purdue University, 47907, West Lafayette, IN, USA

    Ladislau Bölöni, Ruibing Hao, Kyungkoo Jun & Dan C. Marinescu

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José Rolim Frank Mueller Albert Y. Zomaya Fikret Ercal Stephan Olariu Binoy Ravindran Jan Gustafsson Hiroaki Takada Ron Olsson Laxmikant V. Kale Pete Beckman Matthew Haines Hossam ElGindy Denis Caromel Serge Chaumette Geoffrey Fox Yi Pan Keqin Li Tao Yang G. Chiola G. Conte L. V. Mancini Domenique Méry Beverly Sanders Devesh Bhatt Viktor Prasanna

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Bölöni, L., Hao, R., Jun, K., Marinescu, D.C. (1999). Structural biology metaphors applied to the design of a distributed object system. In: Rolim, J., et al. Parallel and Distributed Processing. IPPS 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1586. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0097909

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