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COORDINATION PROGRAMMING: MECHANISMS, MODELS AND SEMANTICS
Author(s): Jean-Marc Andreoli (Editor), Department of Computing Chris Hankin (Editor), D Le Metayer (Editor)
- Publisher: Imperial College Press
- Publication Date: August 1, 1996
- Language: English
- Print length: 400 pages
- ISBN-10: 1860940234
- ISBN-13: 9781860940231
Book Description
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.
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