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Reflection in an Object-Oriented Concurrent Language

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Concurrent Objects and Beyond

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Our work is along the lines of the work of B. Smith and P. Maes. We first discuss our notion of reflection in object-oriented concurrent computation and then present a reflective object-oriented concurrent language ABCL/R.We give several illustrative examples of reflective programming such as (1) dynamic concurrent acquisition of “methods” from other objects, (2) monitoring the behavior of concurrently running objects, and (3) augmentation of the time warp mechanism to a concurrent system. Also the definition of a meta-circular interpreter of this language is given as the definition of a meta-object. The language ABCL/R has been implemented. All the examples given in this paper are running on our ABCL/R system.

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  1. Department of Information Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan, 152

    Takuo Watanabe & Akinori Yonezawa

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

    Gul Agha

  2. Department of Communications and Computer Engineering, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Atsushi Igarashi

  3. Department of Computer Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Naoki Kobayashi

  4. Department of Mathematical and Computing Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

    Hidehiko Masuhara

  5. Global Scientific Information and Computing Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

    Satoshi Matsuoka

  6. Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Etsuya Shibayama

  7. Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Department of Information and Communication Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Kenjiro Taura

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Watanabe, T., Yonezawa, A. (2014). Reflection in an Object-Oriented Concurrent Language. In: Agha, G., et al. Concurrent Objects and Beyond. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8665. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44471-9_3

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