Gryphon: An Information Flow Based Approach to Message Brokering
  Gryphon is a distributed computing paradigm for message brokering, which is the transferring of information in the form of streams of events from information providers to information consumers. This extended abstract outlines the major problems in message brokering and Gryphon's approach to solving them. 
Robert Strom, Guruduth Banavar, Tushar Chandra, Marc Kaplan, Kevan   Miller, Bodhi Mukherjee, Daniel Sturman, and Michael Ward