Coordination languages simplify design and development of concurrent systems. Particularly, exogenous coordination languages, like BIP and Reo, enable system designers to express the interactions among components in a system explicitly. A formal relation between exogenous coordination languages comprises the basis for a solid comparison and consolidation of their fundamental concepts. In this paper we establish a formal relation between BI(P) (i.e., BIP without the priority layer) and Reo, by defining transformations between their semantic models. We show that these transformations preserve all properties expressible in a common semantics. We use these transformations to define data-sensitive BIP architectures and their composition.

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doi.org/10.1016/j.jlamp.2016.09.008
Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam (CWI), The Netherlands

Dokter, K., Jongmans, S., Arbab, F., & Bliudze, S. (2017). Combine and conquer: Relating BIP and Reo. Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming, 86(1), 134–156. doi:10.1016/j.jlamp.2016.09.008