The MP Encoding for Distributed Mathematical Computations: An Object-oriented Design and Implementation.
Simon Gray, Tong Li, Paul S. Wang · 1999
Mathematical computing can become easily accessible on the Internet. The distributed Internet Accessible Mathematical Computation (IAMC) system can supply mathematical computing power widely through TCP/IP, the Web, or email. A key enabling technology for distributed and parallel mathematical computation is a standard protocol for exchanging mathematical objects. The Multi Protocol (MP) allows cooperating applications to efficiently exchange mathematical data with a shared view of the data's syntax and semantics. While the MP design separates the encoding and transmission of data, the current C library for MP tied these closely. An object-oriented design of MP is described that decouples data representation from data transport to produce a pair of more reusable modules. The data representation module is also useful for the IAMC.