@inproceedings{FKPS1994,
   author =    {A. Forst and {e.} K{\"{u}}hn and H. Pohlai and K. Schwarz},
   title =     {Logic Based and Imperative Coordination Languages},
   booktitle = {Seventh International Conference on Parallel and Distributed 
                Computing Systems},
   year =      1994,
   address =   {Las Vegas},
url = {http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/papers/forst-etal1994.ps.gz},
abstract = {This paper deals with the cooperation between programming systems
that belong to different paradigms. We explain our approach towards coordination in the
context of the recently proposed notions
of mega-programming and coordination languages.
We show how our logic based 
parallel language \VPL\ (Vienna Parallel Logic) can be decomposed into a computation
and a coordination part. 
The language constructs necessary for the coordination of autonomous
software systems include a highly abstract communication mechanism, an
advanced transaction model and concurrency. 

The coordination part is generalized so that it can be embedded into
programming languages of different paradigms, for example into imperative languages. This
concept resembles the Linda approach in many aspects and we compare
the two. A main difference is that instead of
adding orthogonal constructs that are in no way related to the host language, we embed
coordination into the language so the result is a new language that does not
change the programming style of the underlying host language.}
}