Open Systems Laboratory

Office address: Amos Eaton 109 Mailing address: Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th St, Troy, NY 12180 U.S.A. Office phone: (518) 276-6912 E-mail: cvarelacsrpiedu Home page: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/wwc/ Secretary: Shannon Bornt

Select publications

1. Agha, Gul, Carlos A. Varela. "Worldwide Computing Middleware," CRC Practical Handbook on Internet Computing, Editor: M. Singh, Invited Chapter., 2004. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
2. Agha, Gul, Nadeem Jamali, Carlos A. Varela. "Agent Naming and Coordination: Actor Based Models and Infrastructures," in A. Omicini et al. (editors), Coordination of Internet Agents: Models, Technologies and Applications, Chap. 9, Springer Verlag, 2001. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
3. Varela, Carlos A., Gul Agha. "Programming Dynamically Reconfigurable Open Systems with SALSA," 16th Annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications: Intriguing Technology Track, Tampa, FL, October, 2001. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
4. Varela, Carlos A.. "Worldwide Computing with Universal Actors: Linguistic Abstractions for Naming, Migration, and Coordination," Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April, 2001. [pdf] [ps.gz] [bib]
5. Varela, Carlos A., Gul Agha. "A Hierarchical Model for Coordination of Concurrent Activities," International Conference on Coordination (COORDINATION '99), LNCS 1594, pp 166-, 1999. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
6. 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]
7. Varela, Carlos A., Gul Agha. "What after Java? From Objects to Actors," Computer Networks and ISDN Systems: The International Journal of Computer Telecommunications and Networking, vol. 30, pp 573-577, April, 1998. [html] [bib]