From jrobbins@elysees.ICS.UCI.EDU Mon Jun 16 16:55:00 1997

>thank you for your TOOLS '91 paper:

Thank you for your interest. 

>@INPROCEEDINGS{robbins:reusable-objects,
>AUTHOR    = "David Morley and Stephen Chiu and Jason Robbins",
>TITLE     = "Reusable Objects",
>BOOKTITLE = "TOOLS Europe, Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems
>",
>YEAR      = 1991,
>PUBLISHER = "Prentice-Hall",
>PAGES     = "",
>ADDRESS   = "Paris, France"}
>
>Your paper is about handling groups of collaborating classes and how
>to express the boundaries of those groups in a robust way. You present
>your recursion arbiter approach to deal with object copying in a
>structure-shy way.

>Have you done more work on this topic since 1991?
>Do you have more details to the reference above?

I don't think much more work has been done on recursion
arbiters. There was a paper about the system that we built entitled
"Simulation Aspects of Noumenon: A Factory Design Environment" in
Object-Oriented Simulation 1993, Proceedings of the 1993 SCS Western
Simulation Multiconference.  I can mail you a printed copy of that
paper if you like, it only has about 1 paragraph about recursion
arbiters, the rest is about the diagrams and simulation techniques
that can be used in designing a factory.  The paper also describes an
instance-based programming environment, called Lace, that was built on
top of smalltalk and used to implement Noumenon. The system was never
actually used to design a factory, although later research did produce
smaller design tools that are being used at Rockwell.