PPRR Research Report Series

The Persistent Programming Research Report series (original listing) was published by the Universities of St Andrews, Glasgow and Edinburgh between 1983 and 1989.

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M. P. Atkinson, P. J. Bailey, K. J. Chisholm, W. P. Cockshott, and R. Morrison, ‘The Persistent Object Management System’, 1983. Published as PPRR-1-83. https://archive.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/reports/PPRRs/PPRR-01-83.pdf
[2]
M. P. Atkinson, P. J. Bailey, W. P. Cockshott, K. J. Chisholm, and R. Morrison, ‘PS-algol Papers: a Collection of Related Papers on PS-algol’, 1983. Published as PPRR-2-83. https://archive.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/reports/PPRRs/PPRR-02-83.pdf
[3]
M. P. Atkinson and K. G. Kulkarni, ‘Experimenting with the Functional Data Model’, 1983. Published as PPRR-5-83.
[4]
P. E. Hepp, ‘A DBS Architecture Supporting Coexisting User Interfaces: Description and Examples’, 1983. Published as PPRR-6-83. https://era.ed.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1842/15010/Hepp1983.pdf
[5]
K. G. Kulkarni, ‘EFDM User Manual’, 1983. Published as PPRR-7-83.
[6]
M. P. Atkinson, P. J. Bailey, K. J. Chisholm, W. P. Cockshott, and R. Morrison, ‘Progress with Persistent Programming’, in Database - Role and Structure, P. M. Stocker, M. P. Atkinson, and P. M. Gray, Eds, Cambridge University Press, 1984, pp. 245–310. Published as PPRR-8-84.
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M. P. Atkinson and R. Morrison, ‘Procedures as Persistent Data Objects’, ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 539–559, 1985. Published as PPRR-9-84. https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/4472.4477
[8]
R. Morrison, A. L. Brown, P. J. Bailey, A. J. T. Davie, and A. Dearle, ‘A Persistent Graphics Facility for the ICL Perq’, Software - Practice and Experience, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 351–367, 1986. Published as PPRR-10-84. https://archive.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/reports/PPRRs/PPRR-10-84.pdf
[9]
‘PS-algol Abstract Machine Manual’, 1985. Published as PPRR-11-85.
[10]
R. Morrison, ‘PS-algol Reference Manual, 4th edition’, 1988. Published as PPRR-12-88. https://archive.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/reports/PPRRs/PPRR-12-88.pdf
[11]
A. L. Brown and W. P. Cockshott, ‘CPOMS—A Revised Version of the Persistent Object Management System in C’, 1985. Published as PPRR-13-85.
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A. L. Brown and W. P. Cockshott, ‘The CPOMS Persistent Object Management System’, 1985. Published as PPRR-13-85. https://archive.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/reports/PPRRs/PPRR-13-85.pdf
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R. Morrison, A. L. Brown, A. Dearle, and M. P. Atkinson, ‘An Integrated Graphics Programming Environment’, Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 147–157, 1986. Published as PPRR-14-86. https://archive.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/reports/PPRRs/PPRR-14-86.pdf
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R. Morrison, A. Dearle, P. J. Bailey, A. L. Brown, and M. P. Atkinson, ‘The Persistent Store as an Enabling Technology for Integrated Project Support Environments’, 1985, pp. 166–172. Published as PPRR-15-85. https://archive.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/reports/PPRRs/PPRR-15-85.pdf
[15]
M. P. Atkinson, O. P. Buneman, and R. Morrison, ‘Proceedings of the Persistence and Data Types Workshop, Appin, August 1985’, 1985. Published as PPRR-16-85.
[16]
M. P. Atkinson and O. P. Buneman, ‘Database Programming Language Design’, 1985. Published as PPRR-17-85.
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W. P. Cockshott, ‘The Persistent Store Machine’, 1985. Published as PPRR-18-85. https://archive.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/reports/PPRRs/PPRR-18-85.pdf
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M. P. Atkinson and R. Morrison, ‘Integrated Persistent Programming Systems’, in 19th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences. 1986, pp. 842–854. Published as PPRR-19-85. https://archive.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/reports/PPRRs/PPRR-19-85.pdf
[19]
W. P. Cockshott, ‘Building a Microcomputer with Associative Virtual Memory’, 1985. Published as PPRR-20-85.
[20]
M. P. Atkinson, R. Morrison, and G. D. Pratten, ‘A Persistent Information Space Architecture’, 1985. Published as PPRR-21-85.
[21]
O. P. Buneman and M. P. Atkinson, ‘Inheritance and Persistence in Database Programming Languages’, 1986. Published as PPRR-22-86. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/16856.16858
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A. L. Brown and A. Dearle, ‘Implementation Issues in Persistent Graphics’, University Computing, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 101–108, 1986. Published as PPRR-23-86.
[23]
R. L. Cooper, M. P. Atkinson, and S. Blott, ‘Using a Persistent Environment to Maintain a Bibliographic Database’, 1986. Published as PPRR-24-86.
[24]
R. L. Cooper, ‘Applications Programming in PS-algol’, 1987. Published as PPRR-25-87.
[25]
P. Philbrow and M. P. Atkinson, ‘Exception Handling in a Persistent Programming Language’, 1986. Published as PPRR-26-86.
[26]
A. J. Hurst, ‘A Context Sensitive Addressing Model’, 1987. Published as PPRR-27-87.
[27]
O. P. Buneman and A. Ochari, ‘A Domain Theoretic Approach to Higher-Order Relations’, 1986. Published as PPRR-28-86.
[28]
J. Campin and M. P. Atkinson, ‘A Persistent Store Garbage Collector with Statistical Facilities’, 1986. Published as PPRR-29-86.
[29]
O. P. Buneman, ‘Data Types for Data Base Programming’, 1986. Published as PPRR-30-86.
[30]
R. Carrick, A. J. Cole, and R. Morrison, ‘An Introduction to PS-algol Programming, 3rd edition’, 1987. Published as PPRR-31-87.
[31]
R. Morrison, A. L. Brown, R. Carrick, R. C. H. Connor, A. Dearle, and M. P. Atkinson, ‘Polymorphism, Persistence and Software Reuse in a Strongly Typed Object Oriented Environment’, Software Engineering Journal, vol. 2, no. 6, pp. 199–204, 1987. Published as PPRR-32-87. https://archive.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/reports/PPRRs/PPRR-32-87.pdf
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A. Dearle and A. L. Brown, ‘Safe Browsing in a Strongly Typed Persistent Environment’, Computer Journal, vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 540–544, 1988. Published as PPRR-33-87. https://archive.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/reports/PPRRs/PPRR-33-87.pdf
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R. L. Cooper, M. P. Atkinson, A. Dearle, and D. Abderrahmane, ‘Constructing Database Systems in a Persistent Environment’, 1987, pp. 117–125. Published as PPRR-34-87. https://www.vldb.org/conf/1987/P117.PDF
[34]
A. Dearle, ‘A Persistent Architecture Intermediate Language’, 1987. Published as PPRR-35-87. https://archive.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/reports/PPRRs/PPRR-35-87.pdf
[35]
M. P. Atkinson, R. Morrison, and G. D. Pratten, ‘Persistent Information Architectures’, 1987. Published as PPRR-36-87. https://archive.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/reports/PPRRs/PPRR-36-87.pdf
[36]
Z. Loboz, ‘PS-algol Machine Monitoring’, 1987. Published as PPRR-37-87.
[37]
R. Morrison, M. P. Atkinson, and A. Dearle, ‘Flexible Incremental Bindings in a Persistent Object Store’, 1987. Published as PPRR-38-87. https://archive.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/reports/PPRRs/PPRR-38-87.pdf
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R. Morrison, C. J. Barter, A. L. Brown, R. Carrick, R. C. H. Connor, A. Dearle, A. J. Hurst, and M. J. Livesey, ‘Polymorphic Persistent Processes’, 1987. Published as PPRR-39-87.
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W. J. Hansen, ‘Andrew, Unix and Educational Computing’, 1987. Published as PPRR-40-87.
[40]
W. J. Hansen and C. Haas, ‘Factors that Affect Reading and Writing with Personal Computers and Workstations’, 1987. Published as PPRR-41-87.
[41]
W. J. Hansen, ‘A Practical Algebra for Substring Expressions’, 1987. Published as PPRR-42-87.
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W. J. Hansen, ‘The NESS Reference Manual’, 1987. Published as PPRR-43-87.
[43]
T. Bloom and S. B. Zdonik, ‘Issues in the Design of Object-Oriented Database Programming Languages’, 1987, pp. 496–517. Published as PPRR-44-87. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/38807.38848
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P. A. Buhr and C. R. Zarnke, ‘Persistence in an Environment for a Statically-Typed Programming language’, 1987, pp. 317–336. Published as PPRR-44-87.
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R. L. Cooper and M. P. Atkinson, ‘Requirements Modelling in a Persistent Object Store’, 1987, pp. 52–67. Published as PPRR-44-87.
[46]
P. Lyngbaek, N. P. Derrett, D. H. Fishman, W. Kent, and T. A. Ryan, ‘Design and Implementation of the Iris Object Manager’, 1987, pp. 25–51. Published as PPRR-44-87.
[47]
J. Rosenberg and J. L. Keedy, ‘Object Management and Addressing in the MONADS Architecture’, 1987, pp. 114–133. Published as PPRR-44-87.
[48]
F. Wai, ‘Distribution and Persistence’, 1987, pp. 207–225. Published as PPRR-44-87.
[49]
M. P. Atkinson, O. P. Buneman, and R. Morrison, ‘Delayed Binding and Type Checking in Database Programming Languages’, 1987. Published as PPRR-45-87.
[50]
G. L. Krablin, ‘Transactions and Concurrency’, 1987. Published as PPRR-46-87.
[51]
M. P. Atkinson, J. R. Lucking, R. Morrison, and G. D. Pratten, ‘Persistent Information Space Architecture - PISA Club Rules’, 1987. Published as PPRR-47-87.
[52]
Q. I. Cutts and G. Kirby, ‘An Event-Driven Software Architecture’, 1987. Published as PPRR-48-87. https://archive.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/reports/PPRRs/PPRR-48-87.pdf
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P. J. Benson, E. B. D’Souza, I. S. Rennie, and S. J. Waddell, ‘An Implementation of Multiple Inheritance in a Persistent Environment’, 1987. Published as PPRR-49-87.
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A. L. Brown, ‘A Distributed Stable Store’, 1987. Published as PPRR-50-87. https://archive.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/reports/PPRRs/PPRR-50-87.pdf
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A. Dearle, ‘Constructing Compilers in a Persistent Environment’, in 2nd International Workshop on Persistent Object Systems. 1987. Published as PPRR-51-87. https://archive.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/reports/PPRRs/PPRR-51-87.pdf
[56]
S. Blott and J. Campin, ‘Lgen, Pgen and Sgen - Language Development Tools for a Persistent Programming Environment’, 1987. Published as PPRR-52-87.
[57]
M. P. Atkinson and R. Morrison, ‘Polymorphic Names and Iterations’, 1987. Published as PPRR-53-87.
[58]
R. L. Cooper and M. P. Atkinson, ‘A Requirements Modelling Tool Built in PS-algol’, 1987. Published as PPRR-54-87.
[59]
R. L. Cooper and M. P. Atkinson, ‘A Persistent Software Database with Version Control’, 1987. Published as PPRR-55-87.
[60]
R. L. Cooper, D. K. McFarlane, and S. Ahmed, ‘User Interface Tools in PS-algol’, 1987. Published as PPRR-56-87.
[61]
R. Morrison, A. L. Brown, R. Carrick, R. C. H. Connor, and A. Dearle, ‘On the Integration of Object-Oriented and Process-Oriented Computation in Persistent Environments’, K R Dittrich, Ed., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 334. , Springer-Verlag, 1988, pp. 334–339. Published as PPRR-57-88. https://archive.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/reports/PPRRs/PPRR-57-88.pdf
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R. C. H. Connor, ‘The Napier Type-Checking Module’, 1988. Published as PPRR-58-88.
[63]
A. L. Brown, R. Carrick, R. C. H. Connor, A. Dearle, and R. Morrison, ‘The Persistent Abstract Machine’, 1988. Published as PPRR-59-88.
[64]
F. Wai, ‘Distributed PS-algol’, 1988. Published as PPRR-60-88.
[65]
F. Wai, ‘Universal Persistent Store - An Approach towards Distributing Persistent Data’, 1988. Published as PPRR-61-88.
[66]
J. Campin, ‘Tense Logic and Nested Transactions’, 1988. Published as PPRR-62-88.
[67]
J. Campin, ‘Language Constructs for Distributed Persistent Programming’, 1988. Published as PPRR-63-88.
[68]
J. Campin, ‘Specifying the Persistent Abstract Machine’, 1988. Published as PPRR-64-88.
[69]
A. Dearle, ‘On the Construction of Persistent Programming Environments’, University of St Andrews, 1988. Published as PPRR-65-88. https://archive.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/reports/PPRRs/PPRR-65-88.pdf
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R. Morrison, A. Dearle, and C. D. Marlin, ‘Adaptive Data Stores’, in Second Australian Joint Artificial Intelligence Conference. 1988. Published as PPRR-66-88. https://archive.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/reports/PPRRs/PPRR-66-88.pdf
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A. Dearle, ‘Environments: A Flexible Binding Mechanism to Support System Evolution’, in Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. 1989, pp. 46–55. Published as PPRR-67-88. https://archive.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/reports/PPRRs/PPRR-67-88.pdf
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A. Dearle, Q. I. Cutts, and G. Kirby, ‘Browsing, Grazing and Nibbling Persistent Data Structures’, presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Persistent Object Systems (POS3), Newcastle, Australia, 1990, pp. 56–69. Published as PPRR-68-88. https://archive.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/reports/PPRRs/PPRR-68-88.pdf
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R. Morrison, A. L. Brown, R. Carrick, R. C. H. Connor, A. Dearle, and M. P. Atkinson, ‘The Napier Type System’, 1988. Published as PPRR-69-88. https://archive.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/reports/PPRRs/PPRR-69-88.pdf
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M. P. Atkinson, R. Morrison, J. R. Lucking, and G. D. Pratten, ‘PISA Club Rules and Reference Model’, 1988. Published as PPRR-70-88. https://archive.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/reports/PPRRs/PPRR-70-88.pdf
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A. L. Brown, ‘Persistent Object Stores’, University of St Andrews, 1989. Published as PPRR-71-89. https://archive.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/reports/PPRRs/PPRR-71-89.pdf
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Q. I. Cutts, G. Kirby, R. C. H. Connor, A. Dearle, and C. D. Marlin, ‘An Object-Oriented Approach to Window-based Applications’, 1989. Published as PPRR-72-89. https://archive.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/reports/PPRRs/PPRR-72-89.pdf
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G. Kirby, Q. I. Cutts, A. Dearle, and C. D. Marlin, ‘WIN: A Persistent Window Management System’, 1989. Published as PPRR-73-89. https://archive.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/reports/PPRRs/PPRR-73-89.pdf
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R. C. H. Connor, A. Dearle, R. Morrison, and A. L. Brown, ‘An Object Addressing Mechanism for Statically Typed Languages with Multiple Inheritance’, 1989. Published as PPRR-74-89. https://archive.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/reports/PPRRs/PPRR-74-89.pdf
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R. C. H. Connor, A. L. Brown, R. Carrick, A. Dearle, and R. Morrison, ‘Design Issues in The Persistent Abstract Machine’, 1989. Published as PPRR-75-89.
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F. H. W. Wai, ‘Distributed Concurrent Persistent Languages: an Experimental Design and Implementation’, University of Glasgow, 1988. Published as PPRR-76-89. https://theses.gla.ac.uk/77719/1/10998190.pdf
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R. Morrison, A. L. Brown, R. C. H. Connor, and A. Dearle, ‘The Napier88 Reference Manual’, 1989. Published as PPRR-77-89. https://archive.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/reports/PPRRs/PPRR-77-89.pdf