Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Objectives
3. Status
   • UofO
   • Carleton
4. Other Sources of Information
   • WEB Pages

Introduction

The GCS Project is the ongoing work of a multi-disciplinary team composed of researchers from 3 universities of Ontario. The goal of the project is to demonstrate the usefulness of the theories, methods and tools, developped by each group of the team, via a unique task: the implementation of a Group Communication Server.

Objectives

The project consists in designing, verifying, validating, implementing, testing and measuring performance of a Group Communication Server.

Status

Information regarding the project is currently gathered on the WWW server of the LOTOS group at Ottawa U. It is based on the information that is made available to us by the other groups.

UofO

• An informal description of the GCS, by Daniel Amyot & Jacques Sincennes
• The GCS LOTOS Specification ( HTML, PostScript, ASCII & FrameMaker 5), by Daniel Amyot & Jacques Sincennes
• Use Case Maps about the functionalities of the GCS ( PostScript & FrameMaker 5), by Daniel Amyot
• Some more info on the LOTOS specification (text file), by Daniel Amyot
• A project report that includes the UCMs and the LOTOS specification (PDF - 1.4 MB) (FrameMaker5.ZIP - 566KB,) by Daniel Amyot
• The final GCS LOTOS specification (HTML) (text), by Daniel Amyot
• History of the LOTOS specification (HTML), by Daniel Amyot

Carleton

• A paper on Use Case Maps and ACE: R.J.A. Buhr, Alex Hubbard. Understanding the Behaviour of Real-Time and Distributed Systems Constructed from Object-Oriented Frameworks. It was submitted to the 30th IEEE Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (Engineering Complex Computer Systems Minitrack, Advanced Technology Track), January 1997. The official source to find this PostScript document is Carleton U.

Other Sources of Information

WEB Pages

Here are some pointers to related WEB pages:

• Douglas C. Schmidt's Adaptive Communication Environment (ACE)