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Predicate-based communication allows components of a system to send messages and requests to ensembles of components that are determined at execution time through the evaluation of a predicate, in a multicast fashion. Predicate-based communication can greatly simplify the programming of autonomous and adaptive systems. We present a stochastically timed extension of the Software Component Ensemble Language (SCEL) that was introduced in previous work. Such an extension allows for quantitative modelling and analysis of system behaviour (e.g. performance) but rises a number of non-trivial design and formal semantics issues with different options as possible solutions at different levels of abstraction.
This research has been partially funded by the EU projects ASCENS (nr. 257414) and QUANTICOL (nr. 600708), and the IT MIUR project CINA.
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Latella, D., Loreti, M., Massink, M., Senni, V. (2015). On StocS: A Stochastic Extension of SCEL. In: De Nicola, R., Hennicker, R. (eds) Software, Services, and Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8950. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15545-6_35
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