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Action-Oriented Exception Handling in Cooperative and Competitive Concurrent Object-Oriented Systems

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The chief aim of this survey is to discuss exception handling models which have been developed for concurrent object systems. In conducting this discussion we rely on the following fundamental principles: exception handling should be associated with structuring techniques; concurrent systems require exception handling which is different from that used in sequential systems; concurrent systems are best structured out of (nested) actions; atomicity of actions is crucial for developing complex systems. In this survey we adhere to the well-known classification of concurrent systems, developed in the 70s by C.A.R. Hoare, J.J. Horning and B. Randell, into cooperative, competitive and disjoint ones. Competitive systems are structured using atomic transactions. Atomic actions are used for structuring cooperative systems. Complex systems in which components can compete and cooperate are structured using Coordinated Atomic actions. The focus of the survey is on outlining models and schemes which combine these action-based structuring approaches with exception handling. In conclusion we emphasise that exception handling models should be adequate to the system development paradigm and structuring approaches used.

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Alexander Romanovsky has been supported by the EC IST RTD Project on Dependable Systems of Systems (DSoS). Jörg Kienzle has been partially supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation project FN 2000-057187.99/1.

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  1. Department of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1, 7RU, UK

    Alexander Romanovsky

  2. LIRMM Laboratory, University of Montpellier-II, 161 rue Ada, 34392, Montpellier, Cedex 5, France

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  3. Department of Computing Science, University of Aarhus, Aabogade 34, 8200, Aarhus N, Denmark

    Jørgen Lindskov Knudsen

  4. Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

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Romanovsky, A., Kienzle, J. (2001). Action-Oriented Exception Handling in Cooperative and Competitive Concurrent Object-Oriented Systems. In: Romanovsky, A., Dony, C., Knudsen, J.L., Tripathi, A. (eds) Advances in Exception Handling Techniques. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2022. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45407-1_9

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