Structures of Computing: A Guide to Practice-Oriented Theory

Structures of Computing explains the behavioral meaning of fundamental concepts of computing from a practical viewpoint and in generic terms, unrestricted by specific computing devices or programming languages. To compute is understood as processing structures by a set of cooperating agents each of which executes an algorithm assigned to it and interacts with the other agents.

Part I of the book defines the conceptual constituents of interactive processes: (i) data, i.e. structured objects...