ABS: A core language for abstract behavioral specification
Paper i proceeding, 2011

This paper presents ABS, an abstract behavioral specification language for designing executable models of distributed object-oriented systems. The language combines advanced concurrency and synchronization mechanisms for concurrent object groups with a functional language for modeling data. ABS uses asynchronous method calls, interfaces for encapsulation, and cooperative scheduling of method activations inside concurrent objects. This feature combination results in a concurrent object-oriented model which is inherently compositional. We discuss central design issues for ABS and formalize the type system and semantics of Core ABS, a calculus with the main features of ABS. For Core ABS, we prove a subject reduction property which shows that well-typedness is preserved during execution; in particular, "method not understood" errors do not occur at runtime for well-typed ABS models. Finally, we briefly discuss the tool support developed for ABS.

Författare

Einar Broch Johnsen

Universitetet i Oslo

Reiner Hähnle

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Programvaruteknik

J. Schäfer

Technische Universität Kaiserslautern

Rudi Schlatte

Universitetet i Oslo

M. Steffen

Universitetet i Oslo

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

03029743 (ISSN) 16113349 (eISSN)

Vol. 6957 142-164

Ämneskategorier

Data- och informationsvetenskap

DOI

10.1007/978-3-642-25271-6_8

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