Design and implementation of DECS: distributed environment for cooperative software

A distributed environment for cooperative software (DECS) provides a flexible and extensible platform for the development and execution of cooperative software. It takes the advantages of object-oriented technology and emphasizes composition as the basis for developing large distributed system from reusable components. In this paper, we give an overview of DECS, present the compositional approach, and then describe the design and implementation of DECS run-time system.