Homepage: http://www.mozart-oz.org
Announcement
The Mozart Programming System 1.2.0
Available at:
http://www.mozart-oz.org
Systems supported: many Unix flavors, Windows 98/NT/2000
Developers:
Universität des Saarlandes (
UdS?, DFKI, SFB 378 - Germany)
Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS - Sweden)
Université catholique de Louvain (UCL - Belgium)
The Mozart consortium is pleased to announce Mozart 1.2.0, a major
upgrade to the Mozart Programming System. Previous releases were
Mozart 1.0.0 in 1999 and Mozart 1.1.0 in 2000. Mozart is an advanced
development platform for intelligent, distributed applications. The
system is the result of a decade of research in programming language
design and implementation, constraint-based inferencing, distributed
computing, and human-computer interfaces. As a result, Mozart is
unequaled in expressive power and functionality. Mozart has an
interactive incremental development environment and a
production-quality implementation for Unix and Windows platforms.
Mozart is based on the Oz language, which supports declarative
programming (strict and lazy functional and logic), object-oriented
programming, constraint programming, and concurrency, as part of a
coherent whole. For distribution, Mozart provides a true network
transparent implementation with support for network awareness,
openness, and fault tolerance. Security is upcoming. Mozart is an
ideal platform for both general-purpose distributed applications as
well as for hard problems requiring sophisticated optimization and
inferencing abilities. We have developed many applications including
sophisticated collaborative tools, multi-agent systems, and digital
assistants, as well as applications in natural language understanding
and knowledge representation, in scheduling and time-tabling, and in
placement and configuration.
The platform is released with a very liberal Open Source license
(X11-style) that allows both commercial and non-commercial use. The
platform includes a full-fledged interactive development environment
with many libraries and tools. There is extensive documentation
including tutorials covering all above mentioned application areas, a
complete set of reference manuals, and many demos. There is an active
mailing list as well as an extensive Web site.
Compared to previous versions, Mozart 1.2.0 offers improved usability,
reliability, performance, maintainability, and portability, as well as
conservative extensions for Oz and Mozart libraries. Notably, this
version allows to run applications with much higher memory demands,
features an improved distribution subsystem including an advanced
network monitoring tool, supports a high-level user interface design
tool, and facilitates porting to 64-bit architectures. The system has
been extensively field-tested by internal and external use as well as
in university courses and projects at
UdS? (Germany), KTH (Sweden), and
UCL (Belgium).
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EelcoVisser - 30 May 2001