Creative Commons Attribution License. Implementing Distributed Controllers for Systems with Priorities

Implementing a component-based system in a distributed way so that it ensures some global con-straints is a challenging problem. We consider here abstract specifications consisting of a compo-sition of components and a controller given in the form of a set of interactions and a priority order amongst them. In the context of distributed systems, such a controller must be executed in a dis-tributed fashion while still respecting the global constraints imposed by interactions and priorities. We present in this paper an implementation of an algorithm that allows a distributed execution of systems with (binary) interactions and priorities. We also present a comprehensive simulation anal-ysis that shows how sensitive to changes our algorithm is, in particular changes related to the degree of conflict in the system.