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Advanced Topics in Exception Handling Techniques pp 141–160Cite as

Ambient-Oriented Exception Handling

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Writing ambient-oriented software for mobile devices connected through wireless network connections provides new challenges in the field of exception handling. It involves dealing with issues such as asynchronous communication, moving hardware and software, only to name a few. Building on an analysis of the fundamental differences between mobile networks and their stationary counterparts, this paper establishes a set of criteria for an ambient-oriented exception handling mechanism. We subsequently present ambient conversations, a novel distributed exception handling mechanism that adheres to the prescribed criteria, and describe its realisation in the experimental ambient-oriented programming language AmbientTalk.

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  1. Programming Technology Laboratory, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

    Stijn Mostinckx, Jessie Dedecker, Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Tom Van Cutsem & Wolfgang De Meuter

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    Jørgen Lindskov Knudsen

  3. Computer Science School, Newcastle University, UK

    Alexander Romanovsky

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Mostinckx, S., Dedecker, J., Boix, E.G., Van Cutsem, T., De Meuter, W. (2006). Ambient-Oriented Exception Handling. In: Dony, C., Knudsen, J.L., Romanovsky, A., Tripathi, A. (eds) Advanced Topics in Exception Handling Techniques. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4119. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11818502_8

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