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Programming process coordination in Little-JIL

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Software Process Technology (EWSPT 1998)

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Process programming languages have not been readily adopted by practitioners. We are addressing this problem through the development of Little-JIL, a language that focuses on the coordination aspects of processes and provides a visual representation, yet one that is rigorous enough for execution and formal reasoning. We have used Little-JIL to program several software engineering processes, knowledge discovery processes, and are working on processes to coordinate robot teams. We believe the simplicity gained by focusing on coordination and visualization should make Little-JIL both readily adoptable and widely useful.

This research was supported by the Air Force Research Laboratory/IFTD and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under Contract F30602-97-2-0032. The U.S. Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for Governmental purposes notwithstanding any copyright annotation thereon. The views and conclusions contained herein are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies or endorsements, either expressed or implied, of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Air Force Research Laboratory/IFTD or the U.S. Government.

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  1. Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts, 01003, Amherst, Massachusetts

    Barbara Staudt Lerner, Leon J. Osterweil, Stanley M. Sutton Jr. & Alexander Wise

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Lerner, B.S., Osterweil, L.J., Sutton, S.M., Wise, A. (1998). Programming process coordination in Little-JIL. In: Gruhn, V. (eds) Software Process Technology. EWSPT 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1487. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-64956-5_13

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