This Work on first class dynamically pluggable filter objects
originally
started around 1994 at IIT Madras. The first result on filter objects
model is available in SPE June 1997 issue. Eventually the models
have been provided as extensions to Java. An Implementation for COM
components was also worked out. Other work includes Configuration
Patterns based on the notion of first class filter objects,
possibilities of alternative implementation of some patterns ,
consequences to the distributed systems domain demonstrated
through an extension to Distributed Processes, and also operational
semantics for the model.
An expanded introduction is here.
R.K. Joshi, Distributed Filter Processes, Technical Report, May 2001.
(ps)
A revised version of the above was presented at WoFMT, 2002.
Students who have contributed:
Gangi Srirami Reddy, Maureen Mascarenhas, Sonal Bhagat, Pranav
Nabar,
Amit Padalkar, Ashish Kundu, Neeraj Agrawal, Timsy Arora, Himanshu
Agrawal
Yogesh Murarka, Satyashil Awadhare, .
A couple of presentations(old ppts)