Coordination programming: mechanisms, models and semantics

Coordination, considered abstractly, is an ubiquitous notion in computer science: for example, programming languages coordinate elementary instructions; operating systems coordinate accesses to hardware resources; database transaction schedulers coordinate accesses to shared data; etc. All these sit...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Imperial College Press c1996
Subjects:
Online Access:FHN01
Volltext
Summary:Coordination, considered abstractly, is an ubiquitous notion in computer science: for example, programming languages coordinate elementary instructions; operating systems coordinate accesses to hardware resources; database transaction schedulers coordinate accesses to shared data; etc. All these situations have some common features, which can be identified at the abstract level as "coordination mechanisms". This book focuses on a class of coordination models where multiple pieces of software coordinate their activities through some shared dataspace. The book has three parts. Part 1 presents the main coordination models studied in this book (Gamma, LO, TAO, LambdaN). Part 2 focuses on various semantics aspects of coordination, applied mainly to Gamma. Part 3 presents actual implementations of coordination models and an application
Physical Description:viii, 387 p. ill
ISBN:9781848161023

There is no print copy available.

Interlibrary loan Place Request Caution: Not in THWS collection! Get full text