Maintaining consistency in distributed software engineering environments

The authors argue that immutability is a suitable base on which to build distributed software engineering environments. They discuss the various approaches to maintaining consistency in immutable object systems and compare D.P. Reed's model of time domain addressing (ACM Trans. Comput. Syst., vol.1, no.1, p.3-23, Feb. 1983), with their own model of domain relative addressing. They demonstrate the suitability of domain relative addressing for use in distributed-software engineering environments.<
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