On Compensation Primitives as Adaptable Processes

Jovana Dedeić
(University of Novi Sad, Serbia)
Jovanka Pantović
(University of Novi Sad, Serbia)
Jorge A. Pérez
(University of Groningen, The Netherlands)

We compare mechanisms for compensation handling and dynamic update in calculi for concurrency. These mechanisms are increasingly relevant in the specification of reliable communicating systems. Compensations and updates are intuitively similar: both specify how the behavior of a concurrent system changes at runtime in response to an exceptional event. However, calculi with compensations and updates are technically quite different. We investigate the relative expressiveness of these calculi: we develop encodings of core process languages with compensations into a calculus of adaptable processes developed in prior work. Our encodings shed light on the (intricate) semantics of compensation handling and its key constructs. They also enable the transference of existing verification and reasoning techniques for adaptable processes to core languages with compensation handling.

In Silvia Crafa and Daniel E. Gebler: Proceedings of the Combined 22th International Workshop on Expressiveness in Concurrency and 12th Workshop on Structural Operational Semantics (EXPRESS/SOS 2015), Madrid, Spain, 31st August 2015, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 190, pp. 16–30.
Published: 26th August 2015.

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