In this book, a programming model is developed that addresses the
fundamental issues of "large-scale programming," unifying
several concepts from database theory, object-oriented programming
and designs of reactive systems. The model and the associated
theory have been christened "Seuss." The major goal of
Seuss is to simplify multiprogramming. To this end, we separate the
concern of concurrent implementation from the core program design
problem. A program execution is understood as a single thread of
control - sequential executions of actions that are chosen
according to some scheduling policy - ye t program implementation
permits concurrent executions of multiple threads. As a
consequence, it is possible to reason about the properties of a
program from its single execution thread, whereas an implementation
may exploit the inherent concurrency for efficient execution.
From the reviews: "Jayadev Misras 'Discipline of Multiprogramming - Programming Theory for Distributed Applications' wants to contribute theories and design principles to enhance productivity in specification, abstraction and modularization. ... Most chapters have a large number of examples, contain bibliographic notes and a lot of exercises with solutions. The book concludes with an appendix about elementary logic and algebra, a reference list and an index." (Christoph Meinel, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 999, 2002)
From the reviews: "Jayadev Misras Discipline of Multiprogramming Programming Theory for Distributed Applications wants to contribute theories and design principles to enhance productivity in specification, abstraction and modularization. Most chapters have a large number of examples, contain bibliographic notes and a lot of exercises with solutions. The book concludes with an appendix about elementary logic and algebra, a reference list and an index." (Christoph Meinel, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 999, 2002)
Inhaltsangabe
1.A discipline of multiprogramming;. 2.Action systems;. 3.An object-oriented view of action systems;. 4.Small examples;. 5.Safety properties;. 6.Progress properties;. 7.Maximality properties;. 8.Asynchronous compositions of programs;. 9.Conditional, closure properties;. 10.Reduction theorem;. 11.Distributed implementation;. 12.Logic of Seuss programs;. 13.Epilog
Inhaltsangabe
1.A discipline of multiprogramming; 2.Action systems; 3.An object-oriented view of action systems; 4.Small examples; 5.Safety properties; 6.Progress properties; 7.Maximality properties; 8.Asynchronous compositions of programs; 9.Conditional, closure properties; 10.Reduction theorem; 11.Distributed implementation; 12.Logic of Seuss programs; 13.Epilog
