Multiparadigm Research: A Survey of Nine Projects

T his issue of IFEE Software Carnegie-Mellon University; (specifications, rule-based), GTE showcases six research projects * C++(imperative, object-oriLaboratories; and studying multiparadigm proented), AT&T Bell Laboratories; * Integrating functional and logic gramming languages and environ* CaseDE (imperative, specificaprogramming (functional, rulements. This special section provides an tion), Case Western Reserve Unibased), University of Utah. overview of nine more projects in the versity; Each summary includes the name and field of multiparadigm systems. All * Lore (object-oriented, set-based), address of someone who can be conthe research is concerned with proCGE Research Center (France); tacted for further information. Some viding the "right" set of constructs for * Orient84/K (object-oriented, also include references to published the programmer, allowing the prorule-based, access-oriented, paralwork in the field. We hope that this grammer to use more than one mode lel), Keio University (Japan); will serve as the beginning of a forum of thinking (paradigm) for complex * Smallworld (imperative, objectfor the exchange of ideas in the field. problems, but the approach varies oriented), IBM Research; widely from project to project. * Tablog (functional, rule-based), The international collection of reIBM Research, Stanford UniverBrent Hailpern search projects (and paradigms) desity, Weizmann Institute (Israel), IBM Thomas J. Watson scribed in this section are and SRI International; Research Center Arctic (functional, real-time), * Algebraic specifications in Prolog Yorktown Heights, NY 10598