COP2014 Talk

Posted on July 29, 2014

A Reflective Approach to Actor-Based Concurrent Context-Oriented Systems

Takuo Watanabe & Souhei Takeno
6th International Workshop on Context-Oriented Programming (COP 2014), Uppsala, Jul. 29, 2014.

Abstract

To realize context-orientation in concurrent systems, especially in systems based on asynchronous communication, we must take special care to control synchronizations among context changes and other computations. In this paper, we present a method to construct a reflective architecture for a group of actors and describe the method to implement concurrent context-oriented systems. The key idea is to apply parallel composition to actors that constitute the meta-level of the group. This results in a uniform construction method for various types of meta-level actors. Using the method, we give a solution to a synchronization problem regarding cross-context messages.

Publication

Takuo Watanabe & Souhei Takeno, A Reflective Approach to Actor-Based Concurrent Context-Oriented Systems, In Proceedings of 6th International Workshop on Context-Oriented Programming (COP 2014), ACM, Article 3, Jul., 2014. DOI: 10.1145/2637066.2637069,

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