| The Space and Motion of Communicating Agents Contributor(s): Milner, Robin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521738334 ISBN-13: 9780521738330 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $59.84 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2009 Annotation: Robin Milner presents a unified structural theory for modelling networks of agents that is destined to have far-reaching significance. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Programming Languages - General |
| Dewey: 514.223 |
| LCCN: 2009284663 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.65 lbs) 214 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The world is increasingly populated with interactive agents distributed in space, real or abstract. These agents can be artificial, as in computing systems that manage and monitor traffic or health; or they can be natural, e.g. communicating humans, or biological cells. It is important to be able to model networks of agents in order to understand and optimize their behavior. Robin Milner describes in this book just such a model, by presenting a unified and rigorous structural theory, based on bigraphs, for systems of interacting agents. This theory is a bridge between the existing theories of concurrent processes and the aspirations for ubiquitous systems, whose enormous size challenges our understanding. The book is self-contained mathematically and is designed to be learned from: examples and exercises abound, solutions for the latter are provided. |
Contributor Bio(s): Milner, Robin: - Robin Milner is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Head of the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. He is a recipient of the A.M. Turing Award. |