Dreams: a framework for distributed synchronous coordination

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2012

Authors

Proença, J (Author) Other; Clarke, D (Author) Other; de Vink, EP (Author) Other; Arbab, F (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Pages: 1510-1515

27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2012

Trento, 26 March 2012 through 30 March 2012

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Scopus - 25 Citations

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Authenticus ID: P-00H-Z5D

DOI: 10.1145/2245276.2232017

Abstract (EN): Synchronous coordination systems, such as Reo, exchange data via indivisible actions, while distributed systems are typically asynchronous and assume that messages can be delayed or get lost. To combine these seemingly contradictory notions, we introduce the Dreams framework. Coordination patterns in Dreams are described using a synchronous model based on the Reo language, whereas global system behaviour is given by the runtime composition of autonomous actors communicating asynchronously. Dreams also exploits the use of actors in the composition of synchronous coordination patterns to allow communication whenever possible, increasing the scalability of the implementation. © 2012 ACM.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific