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Boxed ambients with communication interfaces†

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2007

PABLO GARRALDA ,
EDUARDO BONELLI ,
ADRIANA COMPAGNONI  and
MARIANGIOLA DEZANI-CIANCAGLINI
PABLO GARRALDA
Affiliation:
Stevens Institute of Technology, Computer Science Department, Castle Point on Hudson, Hoboken, NJ 07030, U.S.A. Email: abc@cs.stevens.edu
EDUARDO BONELLI
Affiliation:
Universidad Nacional de La Plata and CONICET, Facultad de Informática, LIFIA, Calle 115 entre 49 y 50, 1900 La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
ADRIANA COMPAGNONI
Affiliation:
Stevens Institute of Technology, Computer Science Department, Castle Point on Hudson, Hoboken, NJ 07030, U.S.A. Email: abc@cs.stevens.edu
MARIANGIOLA DEZANI-CIANCAGLINI
Affiliation:
Università di Torino, Dipartimento di Informatica, Corso Svizzera, 185, 10149 Torino, Torino, Italy
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Abstract

We define BACI(Boxed Ambients with Communication Interfaces), an ambientcalculus with a flexible communication policy. Traditionally, typed ambientcalculi have a fixed communication policy determining the kind of informationthat can be exchanged with a parent ambient, even though mobility changes theparent. BACI lifts that restriction, allowing differentcommunication policies with different parents during computation. Furthermore,BACI separates communication and mobility by making thechannels of communication between ambients explicit. In contrast with othertyped ambient calculi where communication policies are global, each ambient inBACI is equipped with a description of the communicationpolicies ruling its information exchange with parent and child ambients. Thecommunication policies of ambients increase when they move: more precisely, whenan ambient enters another ambient, the entering ambient and the host ambient canexchange their communication ports and agree on the kind of information to beexchanged. This information is recorded locally in both ambients.

We show the type-soundness of BACI, proving that it satisfies thesubject reduction property, and we study its behavioural semantics by means of alabelled transition system.

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Mathematical Structures in Computer Science , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , August 2007 , pp. 587 - 645
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