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Lookup NU author(s): Emeritus Professor Alexander RomanovskyORCiD, Avelino Zorzo
Coordinated Atomic actions have proved to be a very general concept which can be successfully applied for structuring complex concurrent systems consisting of elements which both cooperate and compete. The canonical Coordinated Atomic action is built of several cooperating participants (roles) and a set of local objects which represent the action state and provide the feature for cooperation. In addition, Coordinated Atomic actions can compete for external objects which have conventional transactional properties. The intention of this paper is to offer a general approach to designing distributed Coordinated Atomic action schemes. Problems of action components partitioning and distribution are discussed. We consider ways of dealing with external and local objects within distributed Coordinated Atomic action schemes; several proposals are discussed in detail. The approach proposed relies on using forward error recovery in the form of distributed and concurrent exception handling and resolution. After discussing the general approach, we demonstrate how it can be applied when the standard distributed model of Ada 95 is used. The presentation of the scheme is sufficiently detailed for it to be used in practice. In particular, a thorough description of the action support and all patterns (skeletons) required for designing application software are given.
Author(s): Romanovsky A, Zorzo AF
Publication type: Report
Publication status: Published
Series Title: Department of Computing Science Technical Report Series
Year: 1997
Pages: 24
Report Number: 608
Institution: Department of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne
URL: http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/trs/papers/608.pdf
