COSC441 Assignment 4, 2017

Redo assignment 2 in Erlang.

It is expected that you will make different design decisions for the Erlang version. For example, you should try to design your Erlang code so that the clients, auctions, and service could all be running on different machines.

Your task has three parts:

• Spell out in more detail what the Erlang processes know and what exactly is to be communicated between them (5%).
• Explain how the Erlang processes find each other (hint: what is the Erlang registry? is there a distributed equivalent of that?) and what protocols they follow (that is, exactly what data structures they expect to be sent to them, what those data structures mean, and what they send back). (5%).
• Write Erlang code to make this work. You can generate Auctions using random numbers; your Clients can also make decisions based on random numbers. (5%)