Principles of mobile Maude

Francisco Durán, Steven Eker, Patrick Lincoln, José Meseguer

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Abstract

Mobile Maude is a mobile agent language extending the rewriting logic language Maude and supporting mobile computation. Mobile Maude uses reflection to obtain a simple and general declarative mobile language design and makes possible strong assurances of mobile agent behavior. The two key notions are processes and mobile objects. Processes are located computational environments where mobile objects can reside. Mobile objects have their own code, can move between different processes in different locations, and can communicate asynchronously with each other by means of messages. Mobile Maude’s key novel characteristics include: (1) reflection as a way of endowing mobile objects with “higher-order” capabilities; (2) object-orientation and asynchronous message passing; (3) a high-performance implementation of the underlying Maude basis; (4) a simple semantics without loss in the expressive power of application code; and (5) security mechanisms supporting authentication, secure message passing, and secure object mobility. Mobile Maude has been specified and prototyped in Maude. Here we present the Mobile Maude language for the first time, and illustrate its use in applications by means of Milner’s cell-phone example. We also discuss security and implementation issues.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationAgent Systems, Mobile Agents and Applications - 2nd International Symposiumon Agent Systems and Applications and 4th International Symposium on Mobile Agents, ASA/MA 2000, Proceedings
EditorsDavid Kotz, Friedernann Mattem
PublisherSpringer
Pages73-85
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)354041052X
DOIs
StatePublished - 2000
Externally publishedYes
Event2nd International Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications, ASA 2000 and 4th International Symposium on Mobile Agents, MA 2000 - Zurich, Switzerland
Duration: Sep 13 2000Sep 15 2000

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume1882
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other2nd International Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications, ASA 2000 and 4th International Symposium on Mobile Agents, MA 2000
Country/TerritorySwitzerland
CityZurich
Period9/13/009/15/00

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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