Towards Language Support for Component-Oriented Real-Time Programming By Michael Franz, Peter Fröhlich, Thomas Kistler; Department of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, 1999, position paper presented at WORDS'99. PDF format. http://www.ics.uci.edu/~franz/pubs-pdf/C12.pdf

The Programming Language Lagoona: A Fresh Look at Object-Orientation By Michael Franz; Springer-Verlag, 1997, chapter in Software: Concepts and Tools. PDF format. http://www.ics.uci.edu./%7Efranz/publications/J9703%20ProgLanguageLagoona.pdf

Michael Franz, Dr. Information on Franz at Computer Science Department, University of California, Irvine; with publications list. http://www.ics.uci.edu/~franz/

Mercury on Microsoft's .NET framework Describes the porting of the Mercury programming language to the .NET platform. http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/research/mercury/information/dotnet/mercury_and_dotnet.html