Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming and Petri Nets : Advances in Petri Nets

by Agha, Gul A.; De Cindio, Fiorella; Rozenberg, Grzegorz

• ISBN13: 9783540419426
• ISBN10: 354041942X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Concurrency and distribution have become the dominant paradigm and concern in computer science. Despite the fact that much of the early research in object-oriented programming focused on sequential systems, objects are a natural unit of distribution and concurrency - as elucidated early on by research on the Actor model. Thus, models and theories of concurrency, the oldest one being Petri nets, and their relation to objects are an attractive topic of study. This book presents state-of-the-art results on Petri nets and concurrent object-oriented programming in a coherent and competent way. The 24 thoroughly reviewed and revised papers are organized in three sections. The first consists of long papers, each presenting a detailed approach to integrating Petri nets and object-orientation. Section II includes shorter papers with emphasis on concrete examples to demonstrate the approach. Finally, section III is devoted to papers which significantly build on the Actor model of computation.

Table of Contents

Object Oriented Modeling with Object Petri Nets	p. 1
Using Petri Nets for Specifying Active Objects and Generative Communication	p. 38
Object-Oriented Nets with Algebraic Specifications: The CO-OPN/2 Formalism	p. 73
CLOWN as a Testbed for Concurrent Object-Oriented Concepts	p. 131
Concurrency in Communicating Object Petri Nets	p. 164
Object Orientation in Hierarchical Predicate Transition Nets	p. 196
CoOperative Objects: Principles, Use and Implementation	p. 216
OB(PN)2: An Object Based Petri Net Programming Notation	p. 247
On Formalizing UML with High-Level Petri Nets	p. 276
Modeling a Groupware Editing Tool with Cooperative Objects	p. 305
Modeling Constrained Geometric Objects with OBJSA Nets	p. 319
An Object-Based Modular CPN Approach: Its Application to the Specification of a Cooperative Editing Environment	p. 338
KRON: Knowledge Engineering Approach Based on the Integration of CPNs with Objects	p. 355
Modeling of a Library with THORNs	p. 375
Inheritance of Dynamic Behavior: Development of a Groupware Editor	p. 391
Object Colored Petri Nets - A Formal Technique for Object Oriented Modeling	p. 406
An Actor Algebra for Specifying Distributed Systems: The Hurried Philosophers Case Study	p. 428
Formal Reasoning about Actor Programs Using Temporal Logic	p. 445
Flexible Types for a Concurrent Model	p. 461
High Level Transition Systems for Communicating Agents	p. 473
Schedulability Analysis of Real Time Actor Systems Using Colored Petri Nets	p. 493
Control Properties in Object-Oriented Specifications	p. 514
Case Studies
A Cooperative Petri Net Editor	p. 534
The Hurried Philosophers	p. 536
Author Index	p. 539
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