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Personal Note: Working with Farhad Arbab 1990–2005

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It's All About Coordination

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From 1990 to 2005 the author had the privilege and pleasure to work as a programmer in Farhad Arbab’s research group, initially on the development, implementation and applications of the Manifold coordination language.

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Blom, K. (2018). Personal Note: Working with Farhad Arbab 1990–2005. In: de Boer, F., Bonsangue, M., Rutten, J. (eds) It's All About Coordination. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10865. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90089-6_5

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