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Christopher Brooks. "Ptolemy II: An open-source platform for experimenting with actor-oriented design". Talk or presentation, 11, February, 2016; Poster presented at the 2016 Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium.

Abstract
Ptolemy II is an open-source software framework supporting experimentation with actor-oriented design. Actors are software components that execute concurrently and communicate through messages sent via interconnected ports. A model is a hierarchical interconnection of actors. In Ptolemy II, the semantics of a model is not determined by the framework, but rather by a software component in the model called a director, which implements a model of computation. The Ptolemy Project has developed directors supporting process networks (PN), discrete-events (DE), dataflow (SDF), synchronous/reactive(SR), rendezvous-based models, 3-D visualization, and continuous-time models. Each level of the hierarchy in a model can have its own director, and distinct directors can be composed hierarchically. A major emphasis of the project has been on understanding the heterogeneous combinations of models of computation realized by these directors. Directors can be combined hierarchically with state machines to make modal models [2]. A hierarchical combination of continuous-time models with state machines yields hybrid systems; a combination of synchronous/reactive with state machines yields StateCharts (the Ptolemy II variant is close to SyncCharts).

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  Christopher Brooks. <a
  href="http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/1166.html"
  ><i>Ptolemy II: An open-source platform for
  experimenting with actor-oriented
  design</i></a>, Talk or presentation,  11,
  February, 2016; Poster presented at the <a
  href="https://www.terraswarm.org/conferences/16/bears/">2016
  Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium</a>.

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  Christopher Brooks. "Ptolemy II: An open-source
  platform for experimenting with actor-oriented design".
  Talk or presentation,  11, February, 2016; Poster presented
  at the <a
  href="https://www.terraswarm.org/conferences/16/bears/">2016
  Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium</a>.

• BibTeX

  @presentation{Brooks16_PtolemyIIOpensourcePlatformForExperimentingWithActororiented,
      author = {Christopher Brooks},
      title = {Ptolemy II: An open-source platform for
                experimenting with actor-oriented design},
      day = {11},
      month = {February},
      year = {2016},
      note = {Poster presented at the <a
                href="https://www.terraswarm.org/conferences/16/bears/">2016
                Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium</a>.},
      abstract = {Ptolemy II is an open-source software framework
                supporting experimentation with actor-oriented
                design. Actors are software components that
                execute concurrently and communicate through
                messages sent via interconnected ports. A model is
                a hierarchical interconnection of actors. In
                Ptolemy II, the semantics of a model is not
                determined by the framework, but rather by a
                software component in the model called a director,
                which implements a model of computation. The
                Ptolemy Project has developed directors supporting
                process networks (PN), discrete-events (DE),
                dataflow (SDF), synchronous/reactive(SR),
                rendezvous-based models, 3-D visualization, and
                continuous-time models. Each level of the
                hierarchy in a model can have its own director,
                and distinct directors can be composed
                hierarchically. A major emphasis of the project
                has been on understanding the heterogeneous
                combinations of models of computation realized by
                these directors. Directors can be combined
                hierarchically with state machines to make modal
                models [2]. A hierarchical combination of
                continuous-time models with state machines yields
                hybrid systems; a combination of
                synchronous/reactive with state machines yields
                StateCharts (the Ptolemy II variant is close to
                SyncCharts).},
      URL = {http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/1166.html}
  }
  

Posted by Christopher Brooks on 16 Feb 2016.
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