Generative communication in Linda
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Actors: a model of concurrent computation in distributed systems
Actors: a model of concurrent computation in distributed systems
Coordinating distributed objects: an actor-based approach to synchronization
Coordinating distributed objects: an actor-based approach to synchronization
Survivable mobile wireless networks: issues, challenges, and research directions
WiSE '02 Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Wireless security
Fault Tolerance: Principles and Practice
Fault Tolerance: Principles and Practice
User Interaction Design for Secure Systems
ICICS '02 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information and Communications Security
Abstracting Interactions Based on Message Sets
ECOOP '94 Selected papers from the ECOOP'94 Workshop on Models and Languages for Coordination of Parallelism and Distribution, Object-Based Models and Languages for Concurrent Systems
SynchNet: a Petri net based coordination language for distributed objects
Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Generative programming and component engineering
Merging paradigms of survivability and security: stochastic faults and designed faults
Proceedings of the 2003 workshop on New security paradigms
Taming HAL: Designing Interfaces Beyond 2001
Taming HAL: Designing Interfaces Beyond 2001
A Defense-Centric Taxonomy Based on Attack Manifestations
DSN '04 Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
A holistic approach to service survivability
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM workshop on Survivable and self-regenerative systems: in association with 10th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
Energy-Efficient Replica Voting Mechanisms for Secure Real-Time Embedded Systems
WOWMOM '05 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Symposium on World of Wireless Mobile and Multimedia Networks
Actors, roles and coordinators — a coordination model for open distributed and embedded systems
COORDINATION'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Coordination Models and Languages
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This paper presents a coordination model that contains three active entities: actors, roles, and coordinators. Actors abstract the system's functionalities while roles and coordinators statically encapsulate coordination constraints and dynamically propagate these constraints among themselves and onto the actors. A software system's attack-tolerance and survivability in open hostile environments are enhanced through appropriate constraint propagations and constraint enforcements. The role represents a group of actors that share the same set of behaviors declared by the role. Coordination and coordination constraints in the model are categorized into two classes: inter-role coordination and intra-role coordination. The coordinators are responsible for inter-role coordination; while the roles are not only abstractions for a set of behaviors they also coordinate the actors which share the same role. This setting implies that both the coordination constraints and coordination activities are decentralized and distributed among the coordinators and the roles. The decentralization not only shields the system from single point of failures, but also provides a foundation that survivable feedback loops can be built upon. The survivable feedback loops presented in the model resist the contamination of the system by faulty elements and thereby protect the whole system from being broken down by single failures.