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This paper represents a first step towards developing a toolkit for modular reasoning about components of object-based open distributed systems. Our starting point is the actor theory framework [10],[11], a general semantic framework, based on the actor computation model, for specifying and reasoning about such systems. System components are modeled as actor theory configurations and an actor theory determines both an operational semantics and an abstract trace-like interaction semantics for its configurations. The “tools” presented here take the form of relations, operations, and transformations on actor theories that can be used to establish refinement and interaction equivalence relations between actor theory configurations. The use of these tools is illustrated by simple but representative examples.
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Talcott, C.L. (2000). Towards a Toolkit for Actor System Specification. In: Rus, T. (eds) Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology. AMAST 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1816. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45499-3_28
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