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Search Publications by: David W. Flater (Fed)

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Manufacturer's CORBA Interface Testing Toolkit: Overview

January 1, 1999
Author(s)
David W. Flater
The Manufacturer's CORBA Interface Testing Toolkit (MCITT)is a software package that supports testing of CORBA components and interfaces. It simplifies the testing of complex distributed systems by producing dummie components from Interface Testing

Testing of Interaction-driven Manufacturing Systems

December 2, 1998
Author(s)
Katherine C. Morris, David W. Flater, Donald E. Libes, Albert W. Jones
As automation of manufacturing processes becomes more widespread, manufacturing systems are becoming more and more software dependent. At the same time, the software used is becoming more and more modularized allowing for the creation of customized systems

CIM Framework Experience Report for 1996

September 1, 1997
Author(s)
David W. Flater
The National Advanced Manufacturing Testbed (NAMT) Framework prototype distributed manufacturing system that serves as a testbed and trial implementation for emerging industry-developed specifications. This report documents the findings of the Framework

State Models for Jobs and Job Supervisors

June 1, 1997
Author(s)
David Flater, Edward J. Barkmeyer Jr., Evan K. Wallace
Intelligent control of discrete parts manufacturing jobs and machinery requires state models for the jobs and the controllers. Different approaches to control have yielded different state models. While a dominant model is yet to emerge, the advantages and

Generalized Message Passing in a Virtual Reality Application

February 1, 1997
Author(s)
David W. Flater
The message passing semantics of an object-oriented programming language is one of the factors that determines how powerful the language is. Whether it is referred to as a method invocation, a dispatching call, an event, a signal, or something else, each

Programmer

February 1, 1997
Author(s)
David W. Flater
This report documents the interfaces and functions of the 1996 demo version of the Executor. The Executor is the shop controller for the National Advanced Manufacturing Testbed (NAMT) Framework demo, a prototype distributed manufacturing system that is