relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/3566/
title: A Calculus for Attribute-based Communication
creator: Alrahman, Yehia Abd
creator: De Nicola, Rocco
creator: Loreti, Michele
creator: Tiezzi, Francesco
creator: Vigo, Roberto
subject: QA76 Computer software
description: The notion of attribute-based communication seems promising to model and analyse systems with huge numbers of interacting components that dynamically adjust and combine their behaviour to achieve specific goals. A basic process calculus, named AbC, is introduced that has as primitive construct exactly attribute-based communication and its impact on the above mentioned kind of systems is considered. An AbC system consists of a set of parallel components each of which is equipped with a set of attributes. Communication takes place in a broadcast fashion and communication links among components are dynamically established by taking into account interdependences determined by predicates over attributes. First, the syntax and the reduction semantics of AbC are presented, then its expressiveness and effectiveness is demonstrated by modelling two scenarios from the realm of TV streaming channels. An example of how well-established process calculi could be encoded into AbC is given by considering the translation into AbC of a prototypical π-calculus process.
publisher: ACM
date: 2015
type: Conference or Workshop Item
type: PeerReviewed
identifier:   Alrahman, Yehia Abd and De Nicola, Rocco and Loreti, Michele and Tiezzi, Francesco and Vigo, Roberto  A Calculus for Attribute-based Communication.  In: Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 2015, New York, USA pp. 1840-1845.  ISBN 978-1-4503-3196-8.      (2015)  
relation: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2695664.2695668
relation: 10.1145/2695664.2695668