Programmable Coordination Media

The design, development and maintenance of multi-component software systems often suffer from the lack of suitable coordination abstractions. The aim of this paper is to show the benefits of coordination models based on global communication abstractions whose behaviour is not fixed, but is extensible so as to accomplish the intended behaviour of the whole system. Accordingly, we propose the notion of programmable coordination medium as an abstraction provided by the coordination model around which the global behaviour of a coordination architecture can be designed. As an example, we show how a Linda-based approach can be empowered by exploiting the notion of programmable tuple space, as supported by the ACLT coordination model.

parole chiave   Coordination Models, Programmable Coordination Media, Reactions, Tuple Spaces, Multi-Agent Systems

presentazione di riferimento

 Programmable Coordination Media (COORDINATION 1997, 01/09/1997) — Andrea Omicini (Enrico Denti, Antonio Natali, Andrea Omicini)

evento origine

 COORDINATION 1997

rivista o collana

 Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)

pubblicazione di riferimento per presentazione

 Programmable Coordination Media (COORDINATION 1997, 01/09/1997) — Andrea Omicini (Enrico Denti, Antonio Natali, Andrea Omicini)