Designing a Distributed Information System for Collaborative Statistical Computing.
Oliver Günther, Rudolf Müller, Peter R. Schmidt, Hemant K. Bhargava, Ramayya Krishnan · 1996
The World Wide Web has been extremely successful as a tool for distributed publishing and sharing of information among large dispersed groups. This raises the question whether the distributed authoring and execution of software modules can be supported in a similar manner. We study this problem by first developing the requirements of a group of developers and users of statistical software at a German national research laboratory. We then propose a conceptual framework to guide the design of an information system in order to meet these requirements and report on MMM, a prototype implementation.