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PLoP 2006 Shepherded Papers

Notes on Paper 16:

The paper "Two Executable Mobility Design Patterns: mfold and mmap"
(first author Zara Field) describes two design patterns that applies
mobile code in the context of distributed information processing. Mfold
uses the mobile agent paradigm in order to migrate code through a list
of remote locations, performing a local computation and combining the
results that, at the end of the process, is sent back to a coordinator
node. The Mmap pattern applies the remote evaluation paradigm to move
computation to remote nodes, returning the results of each node in a
synchronous or asynchronous mode.

The text was improved in two interactions sections. The author readily
responded to the comments and suggestions and was very dedicated to the
improvement of the work. The text is well written and the main ideas
are clear. The form used for describing the patterns is adequate and
covers the essential information for describing them. It is also
consistent through the paper. The introduction section really helps to
position the paper to the reader, describing the focus of the work and
the main concepts about mobile code and its motivation. The solution
sections are nicely detailed, with well described example codes.
Besides of the known uses section, the paper also presents how the
proposed patterns were used in a a meeting scheduler application.

Considering the above comments, I do recommend the paper for being
workshopped at the conference.

Best regards,

Francisco Silva