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Calvin – Merging Cloud and IoT

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Per Persson,

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Volume 52, Issue C

Pages 210 - 217

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2015.05.059

Published: 01 January 2015 Publication History

Abstract

Developing applications for IoT and Cloud is difficult for a number of reasons; even without considering the inherent complexity of distributed computing, there are several competing platforms, programming languages and communication protocols. It can be argued that this is holding back the industry as a whole: Applications are difficult to write, deploy and manage. In this position paper we present Calvin, a hybrid framework combining ideas from the Actor model and Flow Based Computing. We show that by dividing applications into four well-defined aspects – describe, connect, deploy, and manage – we get an intuitive method for application development, and a flexible, distributed platform for deploying and managing applications. Additionally, we keep Calvin language and platform agnostic by only prescribing a lightweight runtime API, with a limited number of specified communication protocols – with no requirements on the carrier – for communicating with runtimes, between runtimes, and passing data between components.

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Liu YSu LShah VZhou YVaz Salles MIves ZBonifati AEl Abbadi A(2022)Hybrid Deterministic and Nondeterministic Execution of Transactions in Actor SystemsProceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Management of Data10.1145/3514221.3526172(65-78)Online publication date: 10-Jun-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3514221.3526172
Arellanes DLau K(2018)Algebraic Service Composition for User-Centric IoT ApplicationsInternet of Things – ICIOT 201810.1007/978-3-319-94370-1_5(56-69)Online publication date: 25-Jun-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-319-94370-1_5

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Calvin – Merging Cloud and IoT
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Distributed computing methodologies
    1. Distributed programming languages
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
      2. Language types
        Data flow languages
        Distributed programming languages
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures

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2015

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ISSN:1877-0509

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Liu YSu LShah VZhou YVaz Salles MIves ZBonifati AEl Abbadi A(2022)Hybrid Deterministic and Nondeterministic Execution of Transactions in Actor SystemsProceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Management of Data10.1145/3514221.3526172(65-78)Online publication date: 10-Jun-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3514221.3526172
Arellanes DLau K(2018)Algebraic Service Composition for User-Centric IoT ApplicationsInternet of Things – ICIOT 201810.1007/978-3-319-94370-1_5(56-69)Online publication date: 25-Jun-2018
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