Konečný, Michal and Farjudian, Amin (2010). Semantics of query-driven communication of exact values. Journal of Universal Computer Science, 16 (18), pp. 2597-2628.
Abstract
We address the question of how to communicate among distributed processes valuessuch as real numbers, continuous functions and geometrical solids with arbitrary precision, yet efficiently. We extend the established concept of lazy communication using streams of approximants by introducing explicit queries. We formalise this approach using protocols of a query-answer nature. Such protocols enable processes to provide valid approximations with certain accuracy and focusing on certain locality as demanded by the receiving processes through queries. A lattice-theoretic denotational semantics of channel and process behaviour is developed. Thequery space is modelled as a continuous lattice in which the top element denotes the query demanding all the information, whereas other elements denote queries demanding partial and/or local information. Answers are interpreted as elements of lattices constructed over suitable domains of approximations to the exact objects. An unanswered query is treated as an error anddenoted using the top element. The major novel characteristic of our semantic model is that it reflects the dependency of answerson queries. This enables the definition and analysis of an appropriate concept of convergence rate, by assigning an effort indicator to each query and a measure of information content to eachanswer. Thus we capture not only what function a process computes, but also how a process transforms the convergence rates from its inputs to its outputs. In future work these indicatorscan be used to capture further computational complexity measures. A robust prototype implementation of our model is available.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3217/jucs-016-18-2597 |
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Divisions: | ?? 50811700Jl ?? |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | dataflow networks,denotational semantics,distributed computation,domain theory,exact real computation,General Computer Science,Theoretical Computer Science |
Publication ISSN: | 0948-6968 |
Last Modified: | 30 Sep 2024 09:53 |
Date Deposited: | 16 Dec 2011 13:13 |
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PURE Output Type: | Article |
Published Date: | 2010-09-28 |
Authors: |
Konečný, Michal
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0000-0003-2374-9017)
Farjudian, Amin |