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We describe motivations and background behind the design of Klaim, a process description language that has proved to be suitable for describing a wide range of applications distributed over wide area networks with agents and code mobility. We argue that a drawback of Klaim is that it is neither a programming language, nor a process calculus. We then outline the two research directions we have recently pursued. On the one hand we have evolved Klaim to a full-fledged language for highly distributed mobile programming. On the other hand we have distilled the language to a number of simple calculi that we have used to define new semantic theories and equivalences and to test the impact of new operators for network aware programming.
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De Nicola, R. (2005). Languages and Process Calculi for Network Aware Programming – Short Summary -. In: Van Hung, D., Wirsing, M. (eds) Theoretical Aspects of Computing – ICTAC 2005. ICTAC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3722. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11560647_3
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