Coordination Programming: Mechanisms, Models and Semantics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781860940231)

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.

Author: Jean-Marc Andreoli
ISBN-10: 1860940234
ISBN-13: 9781860940231
Publisher: Imperial College Press
Language: English
Published: 08/01/1996
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 8.50h x 6.00w x 1.10d