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Concurrency Theory : Calculi an Automata for Modelling Untimed and Timed Concurrent Systems, Paperback / softback Book

Concurrency Theory : Calculi an Automata for Modelling Untimed and Timed Concurrent Systems Paperback / softback

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Intheworldweliveinconcurrencyisthenorm.Forexample,thehumanbody isamassivelyconcurrentsystem,comprisingahugenumberofcells,allsim- taneously evolving and independently engaging in their individual biological processing.Inaddition,inthebiologicalworld,trulysequentialsystemsrarely arise.

However, they are more common when manmade artefacts are cons- ered.

In particular, computer systems are often developed from a sequential perspective.

Why is this? The simple reason is that it is easier for us to think about sequential, rather than concurrent, systems.

Thus, we use sequentiality as a device to simplify the design process.

However, the need for increasingly powerful, ?exible and usable computer systems mitigates against simplifying sequentiality assumptions.

A good - ample of this is the all-powerful position held by the Internet, which is highly concurrent at many di?erent levels of decomposition.

Thus, the modern c- puter scientist (and indeed the modern scientist in general) is forced to think aboutconcurrentsystemsandthesubtleandintricatebehaviourthatemerges from the interaction of simultaneously evolving components.

Over a period of 25 years, or so, the ?eld of concurrency theory has been involved in the development of a set of mathematical techniques that can help system developers to think about and build concurrent systems.

These theories are the subject matter of this book.

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