ENCHERE

Developed by:
INRIA, France Jean-Pierre Bantre, Michel Bantre, G. Lapalme and F. Ployette

Short Description:
Enchre is a distributed agricultural electronic marketing system, that satisfies the criteria of speed, reliability, and fairness between buyers and sellers as required by the market. To achieve this, Enchre combines many original features that up to no w have been applied mainly to separate research products: Enchre is a system consisting of a loose network of autonomous microcomputer-based workstations communicating with each other via messages. Reliability is guaranteed by means of atomic actions th at are supported by new hardware and software products.

Model: loosely-coupled
Properties: atomic transactions, message passing
Transparency: location, access
Running on: I8086 and I8085 microprocessors connected via Intel Multibus
Date: 1986


References:
Bantre, J. P., Bantre, M., Lapalme, G. and Ployette, F.: "The design and building of Enchere, a distributed electronic marketing system". Communications of the ACM, 29(1), pp. 19-29.


© 1995, Alfred Lupper, Department of Computer Science, University of Ulm