Concurrency: State Models and Java Programs / Edition 2

by Jeff Magee

Overview

Concurrency is an area of software design that is vital in a wide range of applications where responsiveness are issues. They are especially important in the development of control systems. By their nature, concurrent programs are more complex, and therefore more difficult to reason than sequential programs. In order to ensure a thorough understanding of concurrency, concepts, techniques and problems are presented in many forms, through informal descriptions and illustrative examples, abstractly in models, and concretely in Java.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900470093558
Publication date:	06/16/2006
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Jeff Magee and Jeff Kramer are both of Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK

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Table of Contents

Processes and Threads.
Concurrent Execution.
Shared Objects and Mutual Exclusion.
Monitors and Condition Synchronization.
Deadlock.
Safety and Liveness Properties.
Model-Based Design.
Dynamic Systems.
Message Passing.
Concurrent Architectures.
Timed Systems.
Appendices.
Bibliography.
Index.

Editorial Reviews

..."this well written book [...] will be useful to those designing distributed systems"
—Computing Reviews, June 2000

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