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

Charles Lakos (auth.), Gul A. Agha, Fiorella De Cindio, Grzegorz Rozenberg (eds.)354041942X, 9783540419426

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.

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Table of contents :
Object Oriented Modelling with Object Petri Nets….Pages 1-37
Using Petri Nets for Specifying Active Objects and Generative Communication….Pages 38-72
Object-Oriented Nets with Algebraic Specifications: The CO-OPN/2 Formalism….Pages 73-130
CLOWN as a Testbed for Concurrent Object-Oriented Concepts….Pages 131-163
Concurrency in Communicating Object Petri Nets….Pages 164-195
Object Orientation in Hierarchical Predicate Transition Nets….Pages 196-215
CoOperative Objects: Principles, Use and Implementation….Pages 216-246
OB(PN) 2 : An Object Based Petri Net Programming Notation….Pages 247-275
On Formalizing UML with High-Level Petri Nets….Pages 276-304
Modeling a Groupware Editing Tool with Cooperative Objects….Pages 305-318
Modelling Constrained Geometric Objects with OBJSA Nets….Pages 319-337
An Object-Based Modular CPN Approach: Its Application to the Specification of a Cooperative Editing Environment….Pages 338-354
KRON: Knowledge Engineering Approach Based on the Integration of CPNs with Objects….Pages 355-374
Modeling of a Library with THORNs….Pages 375-390
Inheritance of Dynamic Behavior Development of a Groupware Editor….Pages 391-405
Object Coloured Petri Nets – A Formal Technique for Object Oriented Modelling….Pages 406-427
An Actor Algebra for Specifying Distributed Systems: The Hurried Philosophers Case Study….Pages 428-444
Formal Reasoning about Actor Programs Using Temporal Logic….Pages 445-460
Flexible Types for a Concurrent Model….Pages 461-472
High Level Transition Systems for Communicating Agents….Pages 473-492
Schedulability Analysis of Real Time Actor Systems Using Coloured Petri Nets….Pages 493-513
Control Properties in Object-Oriented Specifications….Pages 514-533
A Cooperative Petri Net Editor….Pages 534-535
The Hurried Philosophers….Pages 536-537