Presenting basic concepts, problems, and possible solutions, Distributed System Design serves graduate students in distributed system design as well as computer professionals analyzing and designing distributed/open/parallel systems. Chapters discuss
-- the scope of distributed computing systems
-- general distributed programming languages and a CSP-like distributed control description language (DCDL)
-- expressing parallelism, interprocess communication and synchronization, and fault-tolerant design
-- two approaches describing a distributed system: the time-space view and the...