| Coordination Programming: Mechanisms, Models and Semantics Contributor(s): Andreoli, Jean-Marc (Editor), Hankin, Chris (Editor), Le Metayer, D. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1860940234 ISBN-13: 9781860940231 Publisher: Imperial College Press OUR PRICE: $147.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 1996 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Software Development & Engineering - General |
| LCCN: 97112405 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6" W x 8.5" (1.50 lbs) 400 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |