TY  - RPRT
ID  - eprints2729
EP  - 30
PB  - IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
A1  - Abd Alrahman, Yehia Moustafa
A1  - De Nicola, Rocco
A1  - Loreti, Michele
N2  - Attribute-based communication is an interesting alternative to broadcast and binary communication when providing abstract models for the so called Collective Adaptive Systems which consist of a large number of interacting components that dynamically adjust and combine their behavior to achieve specifc goals. A basic process calculus, named AbC, is introduced whose primary
primitive for interaction is attribute-based communication. An AbC system consists of a set of parallel components each of which is equipped with a set of attributes. Communication takes place in an implicit multicast fashion, and interactions among components are dynamically established by taking into account\connections" as determined by predicates over the attributes
exposed by components. First, the syntax and the semantics of AbC are presented, then expressiveness and effectiveness of the calculus are demonstrated both in terms of the ability to model scenarios featuring collaboration, reconfiguration, and adaptation
and of the possibility of encoding a process calculus for broadcasting channel-based communication and other communication
paradigms. Behavioral equivalences for AbC are introduced for establishing formal relationships between different descriptions
of the same system.
M1  - imt_cs_techninal_report
Y1  - 2015/07//
KW  - Attribute-based Communication
KW  -  Process Calculi
KW  -  Encoding
KW  -  Distributed Systems
TI  - On Expressiveness and Behavioural Theory of Attribute-based
Communication
AV  - public
UR  - http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2729/
ER  -