Astley, Mark, Daniel Sturman, Gul Agha. "Customizable Middleware for Modular Distributed Software," Communications of the ACM, Vol. 44, No. 5, pp 99-107, 2001. [pdf] [bib]
Astley, Mark. "Customization and Composition of Distributed Objects: Policy Management in Distributed Software Architectures," PhD Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999. [pdf] [ps.gz] [bib]
Astley, Mark, Gul Agha. "Customization and Composition of Distributed Objects: Middleware Abstractions for Policy Management," Sixth International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, ACM SIGSOFT, 1998. [pdf] [bib]
Astley, Mark, Gul Agha. "Modular Construction and Composition of Distributed Software Architectures," Proceedings International Symposium on Software Engineering for Parallel and Distributed Systems (PDSE '98), Kyoto, Japan, 1998, pp 2-12, IEEE, 1998. [pdf] [bib]
Agha, Gul, Mark Astley, Carlos A. Varela. "Modular Heterogeneous System Development: A Critical Analysis of Java," Proceedings of the Heterogeneous Computing Workshop, pp 144-156, IEEE, 1998. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
Astley, Mark, Gul Agha. "A Visualization Model for Concurrent Systems," International Journal of Information Science, vol. 93, no. 1-2, pp 107-132, 1996. [pdf] [bib]
Astley, Mark. "Online Event-Based Visualization for Distributed Systems," Masters Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
Astley, Mark, Gul Agha. "Visualizing Concurrent Systems through Component Interfaces ," Proceedings of the Second Annual Joint Conference on Information Sciences, pp 214-217, Wrightsville Beach, NC, October, 1995. [bib]