A Kite-Flying Invocation from Hawaii

Owner Owner Method Invocation Method Invocation Method Invocation

In this paper we introduce a formal approach to architectural design patterns based on an object-oriented model integrated with a process-oriented method for describing the patterns. The object-oriented model is based on the Abstract Data View (ADV) concept, which is a formal model for subjectivity in that it explicitly distinguishes between two kinds of objects, namely application objects and ...

Let's Go Fly a Kite.

Peer Services: From Description to Invocation

In this article, we describe our work on peer services and their description to allow an invocation of them in a distributed environment. The basic idea is that service publication and service invocation are made using descriptions of what is available and what is requested, respectively. There is no prior agreement between services, their descriptions are built independently. Service publicati...

‘You’re a kite dancing in a hurricane,

What would it mean to describe James Bond as a man in his element? As an expression in English, being “in one’s element” usually refers to someone or something well suited to what they are doing. The term often conveys, when a human actor is involved, a sense of comfort, enjoyment, and even pleasure. Conversely, when we note that someone or something is “out of their element”, we highlight othe...

The Symplectic Penrose Kite

The purpose of this article is to view the Penrose kite from the perspective of symplectic geometry. Mathematics Subject Classification 2000. Primary: 53D20 Secondary: 52C23 Introduction The kite in a Penrose aperiodic tiling by kite and darts [8, 9] is an example of a simple convex polytope. By the Atiyah, Guillemin–Sternberg convexity theorem [1, 6], convex polytopes that are rational can be ...