References for Distributed Object Computing
Frameworks for Component-based Client/Server Computing, Scott M. Lewandowski, ACM Computing Surveys, March 1998.
Why interaction is more powerful than algorithms, by Peter Wegner, Communications of the ACM, May 1997.
Customization and Composition of Distributed Objects: Middleware Abstractions for Policy Management, Mark Astley and Gul Agha, Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, November 1998.