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Treating interaction as an explicit first-class concept, complete with its own composition operators, leads to a model of concurrency that allows direct specification and manipulation of protocols as proper mathematical objects. Reo [2, 5, 6, 8] serves as a premier example of such an interaction-centric model of concurrency.

In this paper, we peruse Reo and explain how its model of protocols as encapsulated, reusable constructs facilitates their fulfilling of the more prominent role slated for them in engineering of modular, verifiable, scalable concurrent software. We also explore clues enlaced with some recent results of our ongoing work on compiling Reo protocol specifications into efficient executable code, which sketch a promising perspective for future work on high-level protocol specification languages.

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Notes

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    While this paper was under review, Gene Amdahl [16 November 1922 – 10 November 2015] passed away.

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    In Martin Handford’s 1980’s popular books of double-page illustrations, that challenged readers to locate a certain Waldo character “hidden” in plain sight in a crowd.

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    Of course, by adding extra “redundant” constraints, a programmer can also “specify” a bubble-sort, when and if desired.

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    Farhad Arbab

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Arbab, F. (2016). Proper Protocol. In: Ábrahám, E., Bonsangue, M., Johnsen, E. (eds) Theory and Practice of Formal Methods. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9660. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30734-3_7

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