Reo: a channel-based coordination model for component composition Export

@article{citeulike:625103, abstract = {In this paper, we present Reo, which forms a paradigm for composition of software components based on the notion of mobile channels. Reo is a channel-based exogenous coordination model in which complex coordinators, called connectors, are compositionally built out of simpler ones. The simplest connectors in Reo are a set of channels with well-defined behaviour supplied by users. Reo can be used as a language for coordination of concurrent processes, or as a \‘glue language\’ for compositional construction of connectors that orchestrate component instances in a component-based system. The emphasis in Reo is just on connectors and their composition, and not on the entities that connect to, communicate and cooperate through these connectors. Each connector in Reo imposes a specific coordination pattern on the entities (for example, components) that perform I\/O operations through that connector, without the knowledge of those entities. Channel composition in Reo is a very powerful mechanism for construction of connectors. We demonstrate the expressive power of connector composition in Reo through a number of examples. We show that exogenous coordination patterns that can be expressed as (meta-level) regular expressions over I\/O operations can be composed in Reo out of a small set of only five primitive channel types.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Farhad Arba, B.}, citeulike-article-id = {625103}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=992035}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=223761}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0960129504004153}, doi = {10.1017/S0960129504004153}, issn = {0960-1295}, journal = {Mathematical Structures in Computer Science}, keywords = {coordination}, month = {June}, number = {03}, pages = {329--366}, posted-at = {2009-08-06 19:52:57}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, title = {Reo: a channel-based coordination model for component composition}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0960129504004153}, volume = {14}, year = {2004} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:625103 L3 - citeulike-article-id:625103 N2 - In this paper, we present Reo, which forms a paradigm for composition of software components based on the notion of mobile channels. Reo is a channel-based exogenous coordination model in which complex coordinators, called connectors, are compositionally built out of simpler ones. The simplest connectors in Reo are a set of channels with well-defined behaviour supplied by users. Reo can be used as a language for coordination of concurrent processes, or as a ‘glue language’ for compositional construction of connectors that orchestrate component instances in a component-based system. The emphasis in Reo is just on connectors and their composition, and not on the entities that connect to, communicate and cooperate through these connectors. Each connector in Reo imposes a specific coordination pattern on the entities (for example, components) that perform I/O operations through that connector, without the knowledge of those entities. Channel composition in Reo is a very powerful mechanism for construction of connectors. We demonstrate the expressive power of connector composition in Reo through a number of examples. We show that exogenous coordination patterns that can be expressed as (meta-level) regular expressions over I/O operations can be composed in Reo out of a small set of only five primitive channel types. IS - 03 JF - Mathematical Structures in Computer Science SN - 0960-1295 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 366 TI - Reo: a channel-based coordination model for component composition PB - Cambridge University Press VL - 14 SP - 329 KW - coordination AU - Farhad Arba, B PY - 2004/06// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0960129504004153 ER -