Onward! 2015
Sun 25 - Fri 30 October 2015 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
co-located with SPLASH 2015
Thu 29 Oct 2015 16:42 - 17:06 at Grand Station 3-5 - Session the Third Chair(s): Lindsey Kuper

The actor model has been a model of choice for building reliable distributed systems. On one hand, it ensures that message-processing is serialized within each actor, preserving the familiar sequential programming model. On the other hand, programs written in the actor model are location-transparent. The model is sufficiently low-level to express arbitrary message protocols. Composing these protocols is the key to high-level abstractions. Unfortunately, it is difficult to reuse or compose message protocols with actors.

Reactive isolates, proposed in this paper, simplify protocol composition with first-class typed channels and event streams. We compare reactive isolates and the actor model on concrete programs. We identify obstacles for composition in the classic actor model, and show how to overcome them. We then show how to build reusable, composable distributed computing components in the new model.

Thu 29 Oct

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15:30 - 17:30
Session the ThirdOnward! Papers at Grand Station 3-5
Chair(s): Lindsey Kuper Intel Labs
15:30
24m
Talk
Toward tool support for interactive synthesis
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Shaon Barman UC Berkeley, Rastislav Bodík University of Washington, USA, Satish Chandra Samsung Research America, Emina Torlak University of Washington, Arka Bhattacharya UC Berkeley, David Culler UC Berkeley
15:54
24m
Talk
Type Systems for the Masses: Deriving Soundness Proofs and Efficient Checkers
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Sylvia Grewe TU Darmstadt, Sebastian Erdweg TU Darmstadt, Germany, Pascal Wittmann TU Darmstadt, Mira Mezini TU Darmstadt
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16:18
24m
Talk
One Parser to Rule Them All
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Ali Afroozeh Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Anastasia Izmaylova Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
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16:42
24m
Talk
Isolates, Channels and Event Streams for Composable Distributed Programming
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Aleksandar Prokopec EPFL, Martin Odersky EPFL, Switzerland
17:06
24m
Talk
A Bootstrapping Infrastructure to Build and Extend Pharo-like Languages
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Guillermo Polito Inria, Stéphane Ducasse INRIA, France, Noury Bouraqadi Mines Douai, Luc Fabresse Mines Douai