Practical Protocol Composition, Encapsulation and Sharing in Kompics

• At the core of any distributed system is a set of concurrent distributed algorithms that coordinate the functionality of the distributed system. We present a software architecture, Kompics that is component-based and compositional which facilitates building distributed protocols. The underlying computation model subsumes that of event-based systems, SEDA (staged event-driven architecture.) and thread-based models. We illustrate various salient features of Kompics such as ease of use, compositionality and configurability through a series of well chosen distributed protocols.

Subject headings

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Component-based

Compositionality

Computation models

Configurability

Distributed algorithms

Distributed protocols

Distributed systems

Ease of use

Event-driven architectures

Protocol compositions

Salient features

Cybernetics

Parallel algorithms

Software architecture

Information technology

Informationsteknik

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