Prototyping A&A ReSpecT in Maude

Matteo Casadei, Andrea Omicini, Mirko Viroli

The formal modelling of programming languages has always been a challenging activity due to the gap occurring between formal deﬁnition and actual implementation.
On the other hand, the Maude rewriting language has already proven to be a suitable tool to bridge the gap between theory and practice when implementing the operational semantics of programming languages. In particular, Maude has been exploited to model languages belonging to diﬀerent paradigms and levels of abstraction, leading to speciﬁcations that represent de facto executable prototypes of such languages.
In this paper we focus on A&A ReSpecT, a coordination language based on the agents and artifacts (A&A) meta-model, and exploit Maude to generate an execution machine for A&A ReSpecT programs, acting as an implementation of its operational semantics.

(keywords) Rewriting logic, Maude, coordination languages, ReSpecT, agents and artifacts

Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science 194(4), pages 93-109, April 2008.
Carlos Canal, Pascal Poizat, Mirko Viroli (eds.), Elsevier Science B.V..
6th International Workshop on Foundations of Coordination Languages and Software Architectures (FOCLASA'07), CONCUR'07, Lisbon, Portugal, 8 September 2007. Proceedings

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Doi = {10.1016/j.entcs.2008.03.101},
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Issn = {1571-0661},
Journal = {Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science},
Keyword = {Rewriting logic, Maude, coordination languages, ReSpecT, agents and artifacts},
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Title = {Prototyping {A\&A} {{\sf ReSpecT}} in {M}aude},
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