A Calculus of Distributed and Parallel Processes

ISBN-13: 9783322867650 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 332 str.

Clemens H. Cap

Opis

It is the good reader that makes the good book. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Society & Solitude. In the course of two projects, the author of this book was involved in the design of the platforms PARFORM CS93) and LOLA Cap94), CS) for the support of parallel computing in distributed systems. The former system was geared towards the highly efficient use of idle resources in networks of workstations, and the latter system was intended as a scalability study: How many workstations in the global Internet can be used simultaneously for solving a massively parallel problem? In one of the experiments conducted with these systems, up to 800 workstations on all five continents were cooperating for the solution of a search problem from molecular biology Cap94). The most important lessons which the author was forced to learn during the course of these projects were not to rely on any documentation of network-and low-level system-calls, to use neither common sense nor mathematical logic during the design of a large distributed system, but to be happy with a working program, and not to ask, why it would work.

Spis treści

Transition Systems - Distributed Transition Systems - Higher Order Transition Systems - Process Specification Formalisms - Examples Categorical Interpretations - Conclusions, Challenges, and Opportunities - Mathematical Prerequisites - Linear Logic - Category Theory

O autorze

Prof.Dr. Clemens H. Cap, Universität Rostock

Blurb

This book introduces a process calculus for parallel, distributed and reactive systems. It describes the conceptual foundations as well as the mathematical theory behind a programming language, and a number of application examples. The chosen approach provides a framework for understanding the semantics of parallel and distributed systems. Moreover, it can be directly applied to practical problems.