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Dynamic Reconfiguration in Coordination Languages

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High Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN-Europe 2000)

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A rather recent approach in programming parallel and distributed systems is that of coordination models and languages. Coordination programming enjoys a number of advantages such as the ability to express different software architectures and abstract interaction protocols, supporting multilinguality, reusability and programming-in-the-large, etc. In this paper we show the potential of control- or event-driven coordination languages to be used as languages for expressing dynamically reconfigurable software architectures. We argue that control-driven coordination has similar goals and aims with reconfigurable environments and we illustrate how the former can achieve the functionality required by the latter.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, 75 Kallipoleos Str., P.O.B. 20537, CY-1678, Nicosia, Cyprus

    George A. Papadopoulos

  2. Department of Software Engineering, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Farhad Arbab

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  1. Institute of Computer Science and Academic Computer Center CYFRONET, University of Mining and Metallurgy (AGH), al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059, Cracow, Poland

    Marian Bubak

  2. Faculteit der Natuurwetenschappen, Wiskunde en Informatica, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1098 SJ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  3. California Institute of Technology, Caltech 158-79, Pasadena, CA, 91125, USA

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Papadopoulos, G.A., Arbab, F. (2000). Dynamic Reconfiguration in Coordination Languages. In: Bubak, M., Afsarmanesh, H., Hertzberger, B., Williams, R. (eds) High Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1823. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45492-6_20

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