Reactive programming has recently gained popularity as a paradigm that is well-suited for
developing event-driven and interactive applications. It facilitates the development of such …

To program parallel systems efficiently and easily, a wide range of programming models
have been proposed, each with different choices concerning synchronization and …

There is an impedance mismatch between message-passing concurrency and virtual
machines, such as the JVM. VMs usually map their threads to heavyweight OS processes …

When separately written programs are composed so that they may cooperate, they may
instead destructively interfere in unanticipated ways. These hazards limit the scale and …

The Actor model is a mathematical theory that treats" Actors" as the universal primitives of
concurrent digital computation. The model has been used both as a framework for a …

Cloud computing is a new computing paradigm, combining diverse client devices--PCs,
smartphones, sensors, single-function, and embedded--with computation and data storage …

High-scale interactive services demand high throughput with low latency and high
availability, difficult goals to meet with the traditional stateless 3-tier architecture. The actor …

A new field in distributed computing, called Ambient Intelligence, has emerged as a
consequence of the increasing availability of wireless devices and the mobile networks they …

Concurrency in object-oriented languages is still waiting for a satisfactory solution. For many
application areas, standard mechanisms like threads and locks are too low level and have …

In this paper, we describe AmbientTalk: a domain-specific language for orchestrating service
discovery and composition in mobile ad hoc networks. AmbientTalk is a distributed object …