2011/08/01 by Chiara Bodei, Viet Dung Dinh, Gian Luigi Ferrari
Computer Science · #cs.DC
paper · pdf · doi:10.4204/eptcs.58.4
published as EPTCS 58, 2011, pp. 49-64 · In Proceedings FOCLASA 2011, arXiv:1107.5847
arxiv created 2011/08/01 · arxiv updated 2011/08/02
The effective usages of computational resources are a primary concern of up-to-date distributed applications. In this paper, we present a methodology to reason about resource usages (acquisition, release, revision, ...), and therefore the proposed approach enables to predict bad usages of resources. Keeping in mind the interplay between local and global information occurring in the application-resource interactions, we model resources as entities with local policies and global properties governing the overall interactions. Formally, our model takes the shape of an extension of pi-calculus with primitives to manage resources. We develop a Control Flow Analysis computing a static approximation of process behaviour and therefore of the resource usages.