From Beat.Liver@SWISSTELECOM.COM Thu Jun 26 02:35:57 1997 To: , Subject: RE: Introduction Gruezi Karl, Die Welt ist doch ziemlich klein, oder? Thank's Dean. The discussion was very interesting, but I had not much time (and I need to think a few things over). What I understood from your discussion is that AP manages the structures, whereas ZD provides a design-level description, the function. For ZD, I see that AP could provide a more principled approach to manage the structures related to devices. I wonder how the structure of the functional decomposition and the structure of APs are related. A collaboration seems to me also fruitful and I will provide better comments as soon as possible. Last week, I attended SEKE'97: it seems to become clear that adaptive programs are the future, for which richer descriptions (and tools) are required. Beat