A Process Algebraic Approach to Software Architecture Design

2010
ISBN: 978-1-4471-5766-3
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 487 g

Inthe?eldofformalmethodsincomputerscience,concurrencytheoryisreceivinga constantlyincreasinginterest.Thisisespeciallytrueforprocessalgebra.Althoughit had been originally conceived as a means for reasoning about the semantics of c- current programs, process algebraic formalisms like CCS, CSP, ACP, ?-calculus, and their extensions (see, e.g., [154,119,112,22,155,181,30]) were soon used also for comprehendingfunctionaland nonfunctionalaspects of the behaviorof com- nicating concurrent systems. The scienti?c impact of process calculi and behavioral equivalences at the base of process algebra is witnessed not only by a very rich literature. It is in fact worth mentioningthe standardizationprocedurethat led to the developmentof the process algebraic language LOTOS [49], as well as the implementation of several modeling and analysis tools based on process algebra, like CWB [70] and CADP [93], some of which have been used in industrial case studies. Furthermore, process calculi and behavioral equivalencesare by now adopted in university-levelcourses to teach the foundations of concurrent programming as well as the model-driven design of concurrent, distributed, and mobile systems. Nevertheless, after 30 years since its introduction, process algebra is rarely adopted in the practice of software development. On the one hand, its technica- ties often obfuscate the way in which systems are modeled. As an example, if a process term comprises numerous occurrences of the parallel composition operator, it is hard to understand the communicationscheme among the varioussubterms. On the other hand, process algebra is perceived as being dif?cult to learn and use by practitioners, as it is not close enough to the way they think of software systems.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aldini, Alessandro

Corradini, Flavio

Bernardo, Marco

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Interdisziplinär Systemtheorie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Betriebssysteme Windows Betriebssysteme
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Kybernetik, Systemtheorie, Komplexe Systeme
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Software Engineering Objektorientierte Softwareentwicklung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Process Calculi and Behavioral Equivalences.- Process Algebra.- Deterministically Timed Process Algebra.- Stochastically Timed Process Algebra.- Process Algebra for Software Architecture.- Component-Oriented Modeling.- Component-Oriented Functional Verification.- Component-Oriented Performance Evaluation.- Trading Dependability and Performance.