Controlled Reversibility and Compensations

Jean-Bernard Stefani (1) , Claudio Antares Mezzina (1) , Ivan Lanese (2, 3)

1 SARDES - System architecture for reflective distributed computing environments
2 DISI - Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione [Bologna]
3 FOCUS - Foundations of Component-based Ubiquitous Systems

In this paper we report the main ideas of an ongoing thread of research that aims at exploiting reversibility mechanisms to define programming abstractions for dependable distributed systems. In particular, we discuss the issues posed by concurrency in the definition of controlled forms of reversibility. We also discuss the need of introducing compensations to deal with irreversible actions and to avoid to repeat past errors.

Domaines: Informatique

Jean-Bernard Stefani, Claudio Antares Mezzina, Ivan Lanese. Controlled Reversibility and Compensations. Proceedings of RC 2012, 4th Workshop on Reversible Computation, 2012, Unknown, pp.233--240. ⟨hal-00909377⟩