Functional active objects: typing and formalisation

Henrio, Ludovic and Kammueller, Florian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5839-5488 (2009) Functional active objects: typing and formalisation. Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, 255 . pp. 83-101. ISSN 1571-0661 [Article] (doi:10.1016/j.entcs.2009.10.026)

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Abstract

This paper provides a sound foundation for autonomous objects communicating by remote method invo- cations and futures. As a distributed extension of ς-calculus, we define ASPfun, a calculus of functional objects, behaving autonomously and communicating by a request-reply mechanism: requests are method calls handled asynchronously and futures represent awaited results for requests. This results in a well structured distributed object language enabling a concise representation of asynchronous method invoca- tions. This paper first presents the ASPfun calculus and its semantics. Secondly we provide a type system for ASPfun, which guarantees the “progress” property. Most importantly, ASPfun and its properties have been formalised and proved using the Isabelle theorem prover, and we consider it as a good step toward formalisation of distributed languages.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on the Foundations of Coordination Languages and Software Architectures (FOCLASA 2009)
Research Areas: A. > School of Science and Technology > Computer Science > Foundations of Computing group
A. > School of Science and Technology > Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence group
Item ID: 6851
Notes on copyright: Post refereed version as permitted by publisher
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Depositing User: Dr Florian Kammueller
Date Deposited: 19 Jan 2011 15:22
Last Modified: 30 Nov 2022 01:32
URI: https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/6851

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