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TINA Computational Modelling Concepts and their supporting language, the TINA Object Definition Language (TINA-ODL) are described in this paper. They provide a framework for the computational specification of distributed applications for telecommunications information networks. The computational specification of a distributed application describes it in terms of interacting computational entities, or program components. It specifies the structures by which the interactions occur and also specifies the semantics or behaviour of these interactions. The article concludes with the need for a strong relationship between the TINA-C community and the OMG to ensure commercial availability of future distributed processing environments supporting the TINA specifications.
The concepts and language described here have been developed in the Core-Team of the Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture Consortium. A detailed description of these concepts can be found in [1]. A complete presentation of the syntax of TINA-ODL can be found in [4].
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Mercouroff, N., Parhar, A. (1997). TINA Computational Modelling Concepts and Object Definition Language. In: Mullery, A., Besson, M., Campolargo, M., Gobbi, R., Reed, R. (eds) Intelligence in Services and Networks: Technology for Cooperative Competition. IS&N 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1238. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63135-6_2
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