Contracts in distributed systems

We present a parametric calculus for contract-based computing in distributed systems. By abstracting from the actual contract language, our calculus generalises both the contracts-as-processes and contracts-as-formulae paradigms. The calculus features primitives for advertising contracts, for reachi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Massimo Bartoletti, Emilio Tuosto, Roberto Zunino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Publishing Association 2011-07-01
Series:Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
Online Access:http://arxiv.org/pdf/1108.0471v1