Annual Conference: Communicating Process Architectures
Communicating Process Architectures 2018,
the 40th. WoTUG conference on concurrent and parallel systems, takes place from
Sunday August 19th. to Wednesday August 22nd. 2018 and is hosted by
Professor Dr. Rainer Spallek,
Chair of
VLSI Design, Diagnostics and Architecture
at the Faculty of Computer Science,
Technische Universität Dresden, Germany.
The conference is organised by Dr. Spallek in collboration with Oliver Knodel and Uwe Mielke
and in partnership with WoTUG.
About WoTUG
WoTUG provides a forum for the discussion and promotion of concurrency ideas,
tools and products in computer science.
It organises specialist workshops and annual conferences that address
key concurrency issues at all levels of software and hardware granularity.
WoTUG aims to progress the leading state of the art in:
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theory (programming models, process algebra, semantics, ...);
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practice (multicore processors and run-times, clusters, clouds, libraries, languages, verification, model checking, ...);
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education (at school, undergraduate and postgraduate levels, ...);
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applications (complex systems, modelling, supercomputing, embedded systems, robotics, games, e-commerce, ...);
and to stimulate discussion and ideas on the roles concurrency will play in the future:
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for the next generation of scalable computer infrastructure (hard and soft) and application,
where scaling means the ability to ramp up functionality (stay in control as complexity increases)
as well as physical metrics (such as absolute performance and response times);
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for system integrity (dependability, security, safety, liveness, ...);
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for making things simple.
Of course, neither of the above sets of bullets are exclusive.
WoTUG publications
A database of papers and presentations from WoTUG conferences is here.
The Abstract below has been randomly selected from this database.
JCircus 2.0: an Extension of an Automatic Translator from Circus to Java
By S.L.M. Barrocas, Marcel Oliveira
The use of formal methods in the development of concurrent systems
considerably reduces the complexity of specifying their behaviour and
verifying properties that are inherent to them. Development, however,
targets the generation of executable programs; hence, translating the
final specification into a practical programming language becomes
imperative. This translation is usually rather problematic due to the
high probability of introducing errors in manual translations: the
mapping from some of the original concepts in the formal concurrency
model into a corresponding construct in the programming language is
non-trivial. In recent years, there is a growing effort in providing
automatic translation from formal specifications into programming
languages. One of these efforts, JCircus, translates specifications
written in Circus (a combination of Z and CSP) into Java programs that
use JCSP, a library that implements most of the CSP constructs. The
subtle differences between JCSP and Circus implementation of
concurrency, however, imposed restrictions to the translation strategy
and, consequently, to JCircus. In this paper, we extend JCircus by
providing: (1) a new optimised translation strategy to multi-way
synchronisation; (2) the translation of complex communications, and; (3)
the translation of CSP sharing parallel and interleaving. A performance
analysis of the resulting code is also in the context of this paper and
provides important insights into the practical use of our results.
Complete record...
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