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Metaphor
This project is no longer active.

Head: Pradeep Khosla
Contact: Carol L. Hoover

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

For more information, see this project's homepage.

We are working on techniques to understand, to design for, and to better manage change in the development of architecturally similar real-time software solutions.

Name - Title <Email Address>
• Antonio Diaz-Calderon - NREC Commercialization Specialist
• Carol L. Hoover - Consultant, ISRI
• [Home] Takeo Kanade - U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Prof., RI/CS <tk@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Pradeep Khosla - Dean and Philip and Marsha Dowd Prof ECE, RI/ECE <pkk@ece.cmu.edu>

• The Metaphor Project Summary Report: Technology for Analyzing Change and Composing Reusable, Real-Time Components and Applications
  C.L. Hoover and P. Khosla
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-98-29, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 1998. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [78 KB], ps.gz [226 KB] copyrighted

• Analytical Design of Evolutionary Control Flow Components
  C.L. Hoover and P. Khosla
  Second Workshop on High Assurance Systems Engineering, IEEE Computer Society Press, August, 1997.
  Download: pdf [53 KB], ps.gz [167 KB] copyrighted

• The Chimera Methodology: Designing Dynamically Reconfigurable and Reusable Real-Time Software using Port-Based Objects
  D.B. Stewart and P. Khosla
  International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Vol. 6, No. 2, June, 1996, pp. 249-277.
  Download: pdf [103 KB], ps.gz [84 KB] copyrighted

• An Analytical Approach to Change for the Design of Reusable Real-Time Software
  C.L. Hoover and P. Khosla
  Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems, IEEE Computer Society Press, February, 1996, pp. 144-151. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [33 KB], ps.gz [47 KB] copyrighted

• Measuring the difficulty of assembly tasks from tool access information
  A. Diaz-Calderon, D. Navin-Chandra, and P. Khosla
  IEEE International Symposium on Assembly and Task Planning, August, 1995, pp. 87 - 93. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [185 KB], ps.gz [192 KB] copyrighted

• The Chimera Methodology: Designing Dynamically Reconfigurable Real-Time Software using Port-Based Objects
  D.B. Stewart and P. Khosla
  The First Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems, October, 1994, pp. 46-53. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [55 KB], ps.gz [51 KB] copyrighted

• Using Hypermedia and Reconfigurable Software Assembly to Support Virtual Laboratories and Factories
  M.W. Gertz, D.B. Stewart, B. Nelson, and P. Khosla
  Fifth International Symposium on Robotics and Manufacturing, Vol. 5, August, 1994, pp. 493-500.
  Download: pdf [85 KB], ps.gz [109 KB], ps.z [160 KB] copyrighted

• Visual Programming and Program Visualization Techniques for Port-Based Objects
  M. Gertz and P. Khosla
  ANS: 1994 Annual Meeting of the American Nuclear Society, June, 1994.
  Download: pdf [60 KB], ps.gz [85 KB], ps.z [118 KB] copyrighted

• Onika: A Multilevel Human-Machine Interface for Real-Time Sensor-Based Robotics Systems
  M. Gertz and P. Khosla
  ASCE: SPACE 94: The 4th Intternational Conference and Exposition on Engineering, Construction, and Operations in Space, February, 1994.
  Download: pdf [48 KB], ps.gz [43 KB], ps.z [64 KB] copyrighted

• A Human-Machine Interface for Reconfigurable Sensor-Based Control Systems
  M. Gertz, D.B. Stewart, and P. Khosla
  AIAA: Space Programs and Technologies, September, 1993.
  Download: pdf [60 KB], ps.gz [54 KB], ps.z [77 KB] copyrighted