On Sun, 6 Apr 2014 22:01:03 -0400, Shawn Vincent wrote: > I am very interested in learning more about the state of the art in > the "communicating with aliens" problem mentioned here and other > places. > > What techniques have been developed or considered for this?
Greetings from another lurker. I somehow mostly missed the previous discussion here on this topic. (Now I look, "90% glue code" is a good summary of the status quo; will revisit that thread soon.) Anyway... ... I did write a PhD thesis about some work in this area: linking software that doesn't have matched interfaces. Note that there's nothing distributed about this work. Sadly it's not a great thesis by any means; I don't want to build it up. But if you wanted to read something not too long, there was an OOPSLA paper in 2010 (that would be delighted to have somebody read it :-). <http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1869459.1869487> (or Google me for a non-paywalled copy, or for the thesis...). I had/have a whole raft of follow-up work that I would like to do. In short, declaratively specifying your glue is the first step towards generating it automatically. There's a lot that could be done. Sadly this whole area seems too cold to get research funding by any means I know right now. Stephen _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
