Computational models
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This document discusses computational models in software engineering, including concurrency models like shared memory and message passing. It covers the actor model, lambda calculus, pi calculus, and join calculus models of computation. Examples are provided of shared memory with synchronization issues, message passing, and how the actor model addresses problems like reference cell access, mutual exclusion, and the dining philosophers. The importance of message passing in object-oriented programming is discussed through a Alan Kay quote.
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Computational models
- 1. Computational models in software engineering Dmitry Zagorulkin (zagorulkinde@me.com)
- 2. Concurrency in practice: • - Distributed systems; • - Fault tolerant systems; • - Mobile systems(mobile phones network, vertices may connect and disconnect); • - Parallel systems(running on one node)
- 3. Concurrency communication types: • Shared memory – usually required the application of some form of locking. (e.g. mutexes, semaphores, monitors). Java/C# • Message passing – concurrent components communicate by exchanging messages. Can be done in synchronous/asynchronous way. Mostly used in functional programming languages. Erlang/Scala(Akka)
- 6. Shared memory example • Execution # • Synchronized • Not synchronized 1 Incr: 100000000 Decr: 0 Decr: 67356100 Incr: 67356100 2 Incr: 100000000 Decr: 0 Decr: -88564700 Incr: 1407800 3 Incr: 100000000 Decr: 0 Decr: -86920200 Incr: -1667800
- 7. Shared memory • Advantages: • easy to write such code • deterministic behaviour • Disadvantages: • wrong waste of computer resources • locking on resource • hard to scale such code
- 10. Message passing • Advantages: • scalability out of the box • possible to use in real time systems • Disadvantages: • hard to debug • hard write code in such style
- 11. Models of computation • λ (lambda) calculus by Church and Kleene (1941); • π (pi) calculus by Milner et. al. (1992); • Actor model (1973) by Hewitt et. al; • Join calculus (1996) by Fournet and Conthier; • Mobile ambients (2000) by Cardelli and Gordon.
- 12. λ (lambda) calculus • Used as a foundation for sequential computation; • Heart of functional programming languages; • Turing-complete; any computable function can be expressed and evaluated using the calculus; • In the λ calculus, all functions may only have one variable;
- 13. λ (lambda) calculus • Function: λx.x2 ( the same f (x) = x2) • Function application: (λx.x2 2) 22 4. ( the same f (2) = 4) • Currying and High order functions: h(x,y) = x + y, h: (Z x Z) -> Z f : Z -> ( Z -> Z) and gx : Z -> Z Example f(2) = g2, where g2(y) = 2 + y. f(2)(3) = g2(3) = 2 + 3 = 5 in lambda calculus this function with currying by: λx.λy.x + y. (λx.λy.x+y 2) 3) (λy.2+y 3) 2+3 5. • Functions that operate on functions - ‘first class values’, so function may be used as the inputs, or be returned as outputs from other functions.
- 14. π (pi) calculus • Pi calculus is a formal model for specification, analysis, and verification of systems composed of communicating concurrent processes. • Concurrent computation is modeled in the Pi calculus as processes communicating over share channels. • Calculus consist of processes {P,Q,…R}, channel names {a,b…c}, interaction (reading, writing) is denoted by prefix α. • A simple interaction between two processes over a channel a can be modeled as follows in the π calculus: a(x).P | āb.Q
- 15. Actor model • Asynchronous communication between nodes • Every actor has it’s own identity ( used for communication) • In response to message, an actor a may perform following: 1. send a message to a friend(acquaintance), an actor whose identity is known to the actor a 2. create a new actor a’, with a given behaviour b 3. become ready to receive a new message with new behaviour b.
- 16. Actor model
- 17. Problems • Reference cell problem (a cell contains mutable state. A simple cell can be created, updated, and queried by other concurrent computations) – illustrates nondeterminism problem; • Mutual exclusion (refers to the need of two or more concurrent computations to coordinate and avoid executing at the same some critical region of code) – A useful abstraction for guaranteeing mutual exclusion is the notion of semaphores;
- 18. Problems • Dining Philosophers – A typical example of complexities of concurrent computation is the famous dining philosophers scenario. Consider n philosophiers, Ph1, … , Phn -1, dining at a round table containing n chopsticks ch1, … , chn-1 where each chopstick is shared by two consecutive philosophers. – illustrates deadlock problem.
- 19. Dining philosophers algorithm 1. Pick left chopstick (if available) 2. Pick right chopstick (if available) 3. Eat 4. Release both chopsticks 5. Think 6. Go to 1
- 21. Actor model(reference cell problem)
- 24. Alan Kay about OOP • “I thought of objects being like biological cells and/or individual computers on a network, only able to communicate with messages (so messaging came at the very beginning -- it took a while to see how to do messaging in a programming language efficiently enough to be useful)” – Alan Kay.
- 25. Further Reading • Programming distributed computing systems (A foundational approach) Carlos A. Varela • Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors JOE Armstrong