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CoOperative Objects: Principles, Use and Implementation

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Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming and Petri Nets

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It is no longer relevant to praise the qualities of the Object-Oriented Approach and the Petri Net Theory. Each of them has proved to be a powerful framework in its field of application. However it is a challenge to associate them into a conceptual framework which combines the expressive power of both approaches while maintaining their respective merits. Moreover, it must be shown that such a formalism can be implemented in a sound and efficient manner.

This paper is a comprehensive presentation of the CoOperative Objects formalism. This formalism embraces the theoretical and pragmatic features of both the Petri net and the Object-Oriented approaches by thoroughly integrating their concepts. It is as well-adapted to the specification and the validation of open distributed systems as to their implementation. The basic idea is that a Petri net processes data objects as tokens, while the behaviour of an active object is defined by a Petri net. This paper also proposes a CoOperative Object solution to the dynamic dining philosophers problem, and tackles implementation issues through the presentation of SYROCO, a CoOperative Objects compiler.

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Sibertin-Blanc, C. (2001). CoOperative Objects: Principles, Use and Implementation. In: Agha, G.A., De Cindio, F., Rozenberg, G. (eds) Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming and Petri Nets. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2001. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45397-0_7

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