Title
Translating Active Objects into Colored Petri Nets for Communication Analysis.
Abstract
Actor-based languages attract attention for their ability to scale to highly parallel architectures. Active objects combine the asynchronous communication of actors with object-oriented programming by means of asynchronous method calls and synchronization on futures. However, the combination of asynchronous calls and synchronization introduces communication cycles which lead to a form of communication deadlock. This paper addresses such communication deadlocks for ABS, a formally defined active object language which additionally supports cooperative scheduling to express complex distributed control flow, using first-class futures and explicit process release points. Our approach is based on a translation of the semantics of ABS into colored Petri nets, such that a particular program corresponds to a marking of this net. We prove the soundness of this translation and demonstrate by example how the implementation of this net can be used to analyze ABS programs with respect to communication deadlock.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/978-3-319-68972-2_6
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Field
DocType
Volume
Active object,Asynchronous communication,Synchronization,Computer science,Deadlock,Control flow,Soundness,Communication Analysis,Asynchronous method invocation,Distributed computing
Conference
10522
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
2
0.38
References 
Authors
12
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anastasia Gkolfi120.38
Crystal Chang Din2827.87
Einar B. Johnsen3132.74
Martin Steffen4397.73
Ingrid Chieh Yu516418.53