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readable for the end-user or observer of the application. The scheme applied in MODIMOS is shown inthe Tab. 3 below.Unit of abstraction Identier NameApplication A:no, where no is maintained given by the userby an external moduleContainer native or C:IPaddress:ProcId native orCONTAINER:HostAddress:ProcIdfor environments with multi-interface for environments with multi-interfaceObject objects: native, for other: objects: native, for other:O:InterfaceIdentier OBJECT:InterfaceNameInterface native native, possibly: MyClass:MyObjectOP:InterfaceIdentier:Count,Method where Count is an invocation call nativecounter, maintained externallyTable 3: Scheme of uniform identiers and namesThe identier of an application can be constructed as a concatenation of a prex and a numberassigned by some external module (in MODIMOS, the global monitor). The applications name, dueto the reasons given in Sec. 2, must be given by the user (in MODIMOS, at preprocessing time). Aconcatenation of host address and process id assures uniqueness of containers identier and name,although e.g. in SR they are part of the language. In environments with multi-interface objects, thereis always an identier of an \object (usually an instance of some abstract type \OBJECT::), allowingfor adding of interfaces and other operations. Otherwise, an \articial identier must be constructed,as specied. Interfaces cause no pain, but methods need keeping counters of current invocations (inMODIMOS, such counters are added during instrumentation of code).5 ConclusionThis position paper presented an approach to denition of a uniform model of computation in dis-tributed object-based systems. Such a model can substantially help in description of future heteroge-neous applications, composed of object of diverse origin. The solutions presented were veried duringimplementation of a monitoring and visualization system for this kind of applications, called MODI-MOS. The proposed model is simple and incomplete for many