Overview and Roadmap of Team Automata

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Main Authors: ter Beek, Maurice H., Hennicker, Rolf, Proença, José
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author ter Beek, Maurice H.
Hennicker, Rolf
Proença, José
author_facet ter Beek, Maurice H.
Hennicker, Rolf
Proença, José
contents Team Automata is a formalism for interacting component-based systems proposed in 1997, whereby multiple sending and receiving actions from concurrent automata can synchronise. During the past 25+ years, team automata have been studied and applied in many different contexts, involving 25+ researchers and resulting in 25+ publications. In this paper, we first revisit the specific notion of synchronisation and composition of team automata, relating it to other relevant coordination models, such as Reo, BIP, Contract Automata, Choreography Automata, and Multi-Party Session Types. We then identify several aspects that have recently been investigated for team automata and related models. These include communication properties (which are the properties of interest?), realisability (how to decompose a global model into local components?), tool support (what has been automatised or implemented?), and variability (can a family of concrete product (automata) models be captured concisely?). Our presentation of these aspects provides a snapshot of the most recent trends in research on team automata, and delineates a roadmap for future research, both for team automata and for related formalisms.
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ter Beek, Maurice H.
Hennicker, Rolf
Proença, José
Logic in Computer Science
Team Automata is a formalism for interacting component-based systems proposed in 1997, whereby multiple sending and receiving actions from concurrent automata can synchronise. During the past 25+ years, team automata have been studied and applied in many different contexts, involving 25+ researchers and resulting in 25+ publications. In this paper, we first revisit the specific notion of synchronisation and composition of team automata, relating it to other relevant coordination models, such as Reo, BIP, Contract Automata, Choreography Automata, and Multi-Party Session Types. We then identify several aspects that have recently been investigated for team automata and related models. These include communication properties (which are the properties of interest?), realisability (how to decompose a global model into local components?), tool support (what has been automatised or implemented?), and variability (can a family of concrete product (automata) models be captured concisely?). Our presentation of these aspects provides a snapshot of the most recent trends in research on team automata, and delineates a roadmap for future research, both for team automata and for related formalisms.
title Overview and Roadmap of Team Automata
topic Logic in Computer Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13589