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Scala actors: Unifying thread-based and event-based programming

There is an impedance mismatch between message-passing concurrency and virtual machines, such as the JVM. VMs usually map their threads to heavyweight OS processes. Without a lightweight process abstraction, users are often forced to write parts of concurr ...

2009

Modeling synchronous systems in BIP

Joseph Sifakis

We present a general approach for modeling synchronous component-based systems. These are systems of synchronous components strongly synchronized by a common action that initiates steps of each component. We propose a general model for synchronous systems. ...

2009

Simplifying Distributed System Development

Viktor Kuncak, Dejan Kostic, Maysam Yabandeh, Nedeljko Vasic

Distributed systems are difficult to design and develop. The difficulties arise both in basic safety correctness properties, and in achieving high performance. As a result of this complexity, the implementation of a distributed system often contains the ba ...

2009

Concurrent Programming Paradigms, A Comparison in Scala

Rachid Guerraoui, Martin Odersky, Mohsen Lesani

There is a rapid rise of multi-cores in recent hardware architectures. To exploit computational power of multi-core architectures, software should shift to be as concurrent as possible; and therefore should have concurrency control mechanisms. There are di ...

2009

Implementing Joins using Extensible Pattern Matching

Philipp Haller

Join patterns are an attractive declarative way to synchronize both threads and asynchronous distributed computations. We explore joins in the context of extensible pattern matching that recently appeared in languages such as F# and Scala. Our implementati ...

Springer2008

Synchronous versus asynchronous modeling of gene regulatory networks

Giovanni De Micheli, Abhishek Garg, Ioannis Xenarios

In silico modeling of gene regulatory networks has gained some momentum recently due to increased interest in analyzing the dynamics of biological systems. This has been further facilitated by the increasing availability of experimental data on gene–gene, ...

2008

OpenDF - A Dataflow Toolset for Reconfigurable Hardware and Multicore Systems

Marco Mattavelli

This paper presents the OpenDF framework and recalls that dataflow programming was once invented to address the problem of parallel computing. We discuss the problems with an imperative style, von Neumann programs, and present what we believe are the advan ...

2008

Bounded Asynchrony: Concurrency for Modeling Cell-Cell Interactions

Maria-Emanuela-Canini Mateescu

We introduce bounded asynchrony, a notion of concurrency tailored to the modeling of biological cell-cell interactions. Bounded asynchrony is the result of a scheduler that bounds the number of steps that one process gets ahead of other processes; this all ...

Springer2008

Equivalences and calculi for formal verification of cryptographic protocols

Johannes Borgström

Security protocols are essential to the proper functioning of any distributed system running over an insecure network but often have flaws that can be exploited even without breaking the cryptography. Formal cryptography, the assumption that the cryptograp ...

EPFL2008

Scheduling Of Dataflow Models Within The Reconfigurable Video Coding Framework

Marco Mattavelli, Christophe Lucarz, Jani Boutellier

The upcoming Reconfigurable Video Coding (RVC) standard from MPEG (ISO/IEC SC29WG11) defines a library of coding tools to specify existing or new compressed video formats and decoders. The coding tool library has been written in a dataflow/actor-oriented l ...

IEEE2008

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