An architecture for object management in OIS
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Communications of the ACM
Modeling jobs in a distributed system
SIGSMALL '83 Proceedings of the 1983 ACM SIGSMALL symposium on Personal and small computers
A natural model for concurrent computation.
A natural model for concurrent computation.
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This paper describes a system being developed at Kansas State University to support the flow of intelligent forms through a local area network of microcomputers. The intelligent form is briefly described along with the supporting network architecture. The proposal is presented that a new software device is required to handle the flow of forms, the Synchronizing Forms Manager. This software will have a combination of operating system and compiler functions and will manage communications between computers, trigger and handle dynamic priority updates of forms, keep system maps, synchronize system clocks, and perform translation of form commands.The Synchronizing Forms Manager (SFM) is described with its associated data structures, operations, and syntax. Further research efforts are discussed with their implications for the office environment.