An alternative algorithm for constraint automata product

  • Authors:
  • Bahman Pourvatan;Nima Rouhy

  • Affiliations:
  • AmirKabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran;AmirKabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

  • Venue:
  • FSEN'07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Fundamentals of software engineering
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Reo is a language for exogenous coordination of component connectors based on a calculus of channels. Constraint automata has been proposed as Reo formal semantics. The corresponding constraint automata of a Reo circuit is compositionally constructed by the product of all the constituent constraint automata. We introduce a simple alternative algorithm for computing product of two constraint automata in this paper. We also give a greedy algorithm for finding the order of selection of two constraint automata when we have to compute product of more than two constraint automata. The order of our algorithm is less than the other algorithms proposed earlier by a constant factor. We propose an algebraic representation for constraint automata which our product algorithm is based on. Input and output of the provided tool are consistent with the other tools supporting Reo join and constraint automata product.