Specification and Analysis of Concurrent Systems [electronic resource] : The COSY Approach /

Concurrent systems abound in human experience but their fully adequate conceptualization as yet eludes our most able thinkers. The COSY (ConcurrentSystem) notation and theory was developed in the last decade as one of a number of mathematical approaches for conceptualizing and analyzing concurrent and reactive systems. The COSY approach extends theconventional notions of grammar and automaton from formal language and automata theory to collections of "synchronized" grammars and automata, permitting system specification and analysis of "true" concurrency without reduction to non-determinism. COSY theory is developed to a great level of detail and constitutes the first uniform and self-contained presentationof all results about COSY published in the past, as well as including many new results. COSY theory is used to analyze a sufficient number of typical problems involving concurrency, synchronization and scheduling, to allow the reader to apply the techniques presented tosimilar problems. The COSY model is also related to many alternative models of concurrency, particularly Petri Nets, Communicating Sequential Processes and the Calculus of Communicating Systems.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Janicki, Ryszard. author., Lauer, Peter E. author., SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	Texto biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1992
Subjects:	Computer science., Computer communication systems., Computer programming., Software engineering., Operating systems (Computers)., Computers., Computer logic., Computer Science., Computation by Abstract Devices., Logics and Meanings of Programs., Programming Techniques., Software Engineering., Operating Systems., Computer Communication Networks.,
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77337-2
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