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Communicating and mobile systems : the pi-calculus / Robin Milner

By: Milner, R. (Robin), 1934-.
Publisher: Cambridge [U.K.] : Cambridge University Press, 1999Description: xii, 161 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0521643201.Subject(s): Mobile computing | Pi-calculus | Telecommunication systemsDDC classification: 004.62
Contents:
Glossary. - Preface. - Pt. I : Communicating Systems. 1. Introduction. 2. Behaviour of Automata. 3. Sequential Processes and Bisimulation. 4. Concurrent Procedsses and Reaction. 5.Transitions and Strong Equivalence. 6. Observation Equivalence : Theory. 7. Observation Equivalence: Examples. - P. II : The Pi-Calculus. 8. What is Mobility?. 9. The Pi-Calculus and Reaction. 10. Applications of the Calculus. 11. Sorts, Objects, and Functions. 12. Commitment and Strong Bisimulation. 13. Observation Equivalence and Examples. 14. Discussion and related works. - References. - Index.
Summary: Communication is a fundamental and integral part of computing, whether between different computers on a network, or between components within a single computer. In this book Robin Milner introduces a new way of modelling communication that reflects its position. He treats computers and their programmes as themselves built from communicating parts, rather than adding communication as an extra level of activity. Everything is introduced by means of examples, such as mobile phones, job schedulers, vending machines, data structures, and the objects of object-oriented programming. But the aim of the book is to develop a theory, the pi-calculus, in which these things can be treated rigorously. - Back cover
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Glossary. - Preface. - Pt. I : Communicating Systems. 1. Introduction. 2. Behaviour of Automata. 3. Sequential Processes and Bisimulation. 4. Concurrent Procedsses and Reaction. 5.Transitions and Strong Equivalence. 6. Observation Equivalence : Theory. 7. Observation Equivalence: Examples. - P. II : The Pi-Calculus. 8. What is Mobility?. 9. The Pi-Calculus and Reaction. 10. Applications of the Calculus. 11. Sorts, Objects, and Functions. 12. Commitment and Strong Bisimulation. 13. Observation Equivalence and Examples. 14. Discussion and related works. - References. - Index.

Communication is a fundamental and integral part of computing, whether between different computers on a network, or between components within a single computer. In this book Robin Milner introduces a new way of modelling communication that reflects its position. He treats computers and their programmes as themselves built from communicating parts, rather than adding communication as an extra level of activity. Everything is introduced by means of examples, such as mobile phones, job schedulers, vending machines, data structures, and the objects of object-oriented programming. But the aim of the book is to develop a theory, the pi-calculus, in which these things can be treated rigorously. - Back cover