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Modeling and Analysis of Component Connectors in Coq

  • Yi Li
  • Meng SunEmail author
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Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 8348)

Abstract

Connectors have emerged as a powerful concept for composition and coordination of concurrent activities encapsulated as components and services. Compositional coordination languages, like Reo, serve as a means to formally specify and implement connectors. They support large-scale distributed applications by allowing construction of complex component connectors out of simpler ones. In this paper, we present a new approach to modeling and analysis of Reo connectors via Coq, a proof assistant based on high-order logic and \(\lambda \)-calculus. Basic notions in Reo, like nodes and channels, are defined by inductive types. By tracing the data streams, we can simulate the behavior and output of a given Reo connector. Besides, with prerequisite axioms given, we can automatically prove connectors’ properties using the Coq proof assistant.

Keywords

Coordination Reo Connector Coq Analysis 
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Acknowledgement

The work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant no. 61202069 and 61272160, and Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China under grant no. 201200011 20103.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.LMAM and Department of Informatics, School of Mathematical SciencesPeking UniversityBeijingChina

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