On Distributed Density in Tuple-based Coordination Languages

2015/02/12 by Denis Darquennes, Jean-Marie Jacquet, Isabelle Linden
Computer Science · #cs.PL #cs.DC #cs.MA

paper · pdf · doi:10.4204/eptcs.175.3

published as EPTCS 175, 2015, pp. 36-53 · In Proceedings FOCLASA 2014, arXiv:1502.03157

arxiv created 2015/02/12 · arxiv updated 2015/02/13

Abstract

Inspired by the chemical metaphor, this paper proposes an extension of Linda-like languages in the aim of modeling the coordination of complex distributed systems. The new language manipulates finite sets of tuples and distributes a density among them. This new concept adds to the non-determinism inherent in the selection of matched tuples a non-determinism to the tell, ask and get primitives on the consideration of different tuples. Furthermore, thanks to de Boer and Palamidessi's notion of modular embedding, we establish that this new language strictly increases the expressiveness of the Dense Bach language introduced earlier and, consequently, Linda-like languages.

Citations

• Proceedings 13th International Workshop on Foundations of Coordination Languages and Self-Adaptive Systems