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A Synchronous Semantics of Higher-Order Processes for Modeling Reconfigurable Reactive Systems

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Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 1998)

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Synchronous languages are well suited for the design of dependable real-time systems: they enable a very high-level specification and an extremely modular implementation of complex systems by structurally decomposing them into elementary synchronous processes. To maximize the support for the generic implementation and the dynamic reconfigurability of reactive systems, we introduce a semantics of higher-order processes in a seamless extension of the synchronous language SIGNAL. To enable the correct specification and the modular implementation of systems, we introduce an expressive type inference system for characterizing their temporal and causal invariants.

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  1. INRIA-Rennes and IRISA, Campus de Beaulieu, F-35042, Rennes

    Jean-Pierre Talpin & David Nowak

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  1. The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, 600 113, Chennai, India

    Vikraman Arvind

  2. National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Campus, 560012, Bangalore, India

    Sundar Ramanujam

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Talpin, JP., Nowak, D. (1998). A Synchronous Semantics of Higher-Order Processes for Modeling Reconfigurable Reactive Systems. In: Arvind, V., Ramanujam, S. (eds) Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science. FSTTCS 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1530. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-49382-2_8

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