A calculus of mobile processes, II
Information and Computation
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IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Theoretical Computer Science
Pict: a programming language based on the Pi-Calculus
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Nomadic Pict: Language and Infrastructure Design for Mobile Agents
IEEE Concurrency
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ICCL'98 Workshop on Internet Programming Languages
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Type-safe distributed programming for OCaml
Proceedings of the 2006 workshop on ML
Language support for fast and reliable message-based communication in singularity OS
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Conference on Computer Systems 2006
Thorn: robust, concurrent, extensible scripting on the JVM
Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object oriented programming systems languages and applications
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Service combinators for farming virtual machines
COORDINATION'08 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Coordination models and languages
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In the 1990s, there was considerable interest in mobile computation: systems in which running computations (or mobile agents) could be moved from one machine to another. Much of this work was in terms of high-level programming languages and mobile process calculi. An example is Nomadic Pict--a prototype high-level programming language in which to express and verify overlay networks, for reliable communication between mobile agents. One can ask whether the language abstractions could be useful for scripting programming in modern distributed deployment platforms, such as many-core processors, grids, web servers and datacentres. In this paper, we demonstrate selected features of Nomadic Pict, and show the use of typed channels and agent mobility for programming in the grid. We demonstrate example design patterns that can be used for implementing safe message passing, test & send, system bootstrapping, and relocatable computation.