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Coordination, the act of imposing a desired behavior on a group of autonomous, independently conceived agents, has been an important issue in the design and development of software systems, both process-based and object-based. In this paper, the Calculus of Coordinating Environments (CCE) is proposed to study coordination as the behavioral union of coordinated and coordinating agents. In CCE, the behavior of coordinated objects is expressed as agents in the Calculus of Communicating Systems (CCS) and the behavior of coordinating objects is expressed as agents (called CE agents) of an extension of CCS. Two composition rules are provided that capture the interaction among CE agents and CCS agents. The applicability of the new formalism is shown by specifying two simple coordination problems in CCE.
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Mukherji, M., Kafura, D. (1996). CCE: A process-calculus based formalism for specifying multi-object coordination. In: Ciancarini, P., Hankin, C. (eds) Coordination Languages and Models. COORDINATION 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1061. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61052-9_52
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