TY - JOUR
T1 - Visualizing actor programs using predicate transition nets
AU - Miriyala, Shakuntala
AU - Agha, Gul
AU - Sami, Yamina
N1 - Funding Information:
This research described has been made possible by support provided by a Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research (ONR contract number NOOO14-90-J-1899), by an Incentives for Excellence Award from the Digital Equipment Corporation Faculty Program, and by joint support from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Science Foundation (NSF CCR 90-07195). The authors wish to thank Guy Vidal-Naquet for his work in the area, Anna Patterson, Rajendra Panwar and other members of the Open Systems Laboratory at the University of Illinois for their suggestions, help and discussions, and the anonymous referees for their comments.
Copyright:
Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 1992/6
Y1 - 1992/6
N2 - The actor model of concurrent computation unifies the functional and object-oriented programming language paradigms. The model provides a flexible basis for concurrent programming. It supports local state, dynamic creation and configuration, and inherent parallelism. Because of the fluidity of actors, specifying and debugging actor systems is often considered difficult. We believe visual programming techniques are of fundamental importance in addressing powerful concurrent systems of this nature. Not surprisingly, a number of methods to visualize actor programs have been proposed. We give an outline of visualization techniques and their relation to actors. We then discuss one such proposal, namely the use of Predicate Transition nets, to visualize actor programs.
AB - The actor model of concurrent computation unifies the functional and object-oriented programming language paradigms. The model provides a flexible basis for concurrent programming. It supports local state, dynamic creation and configuration, and inherent parallelism. Because of the fluidity of actors, specifying and debugging actor systems is often considered difficult. We believe visual programming techniques are of fundamental importance in addressing powerful concurrent systems of this nature. Not surprisingly, a number of methods to visualize actor programs have been proposed. We give an outline of visualization techniques and their relation to actors. We then discuss one such proposal, namely the use of Predicate Transition nets, to visualize actor programs.
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U2 - 10.1016/1045-926X(92)90015-E
DO - 10.1016/1045-926X(92)90015-E
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:38249012549
VL - 3
SP - 195
EP - 220
JO - Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
JF - Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
SN - 1045-926X
IS - 2
ER -