Implementing the π-calculus in Java

Abstract

Mobile communicating systems are ubiquitous in the modern world. The π-calculus proposed by Milner et al [Milner et al. 1992] sets a theoretical foundation for modeling mobile communicating systems such as the Internet, in which links can be sent from processes to processes and a process can use a received link to interact with another process. Here, we present a language named π-language for programming π-calculus processes and a compiler named pi2j for translating the π-programs to Java code, which can be compiled with the Java compiler to JVM bytecode and, then, executed on the Java Virtual Machine. Thus, we implement the π-calculus in the Java language.