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

Communicating and mobile systems: the pi-calculus



Download Communicating and mobile systems: the pi-calculus



Communicating and mobile systems: the pi-calculus Robin Milner ebook djvu
Publisher: CUP
Language: English
Page: 171
ISBN: 0521643201, 9780521643207

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 programs 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 schedualers, 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. The pi-calculus differs from other models of communicating behaviour mainly in its treatment of mobility. The movement of a piece of data inside a computer program is treated exactly the same as the transfer of a message--or indeed an entire computer program--across the internet. One can also describe networks which reconfigure themselves. The calculus is very simple but powerful; its most prominent ingredient is the notion of a name. Its theory has two important ingredients: the concept of behavioural (or observational) equivalence, and the use of a new theory of types to classify patterns of interactive behaviour. The internet, and its communication protocols, fall within the scope of the theory just as much as computer programs, data structures, algorithms and programming languages. This book is the first textbook on the subject; it has been long-awaited by professionals and will be welcome by them, and their students.



MORE EBOOKS:
Historical Dictionary of Irish Cinema (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts) ebook download
online Expounding the Mathematical Seed: Supplements: A Translation of Bhaskara I on the Mathematical Chapter of the Aryabhatiya
Big Book of Patterns PreS-K pdf download
Download ebook: Saint-Saens' Samson and Delilah







Tags: Communicating and mobile systems: the pi-calculus ebook pdf djvu epub
Communicating and mobile systems: the pi-calculus download pdf epub djvu
Download Communicating and mobile systems: the pi-calculus free ebook pdf
Read Communicating and mobile systems: the pi-calculus online book
Communicating and mobile systems: the pi-calculus cheap ebook for kindle and nook
Communicating and mobile systems: the pi-calculus download book
Robin Milner ebooks
Communicating and mobile systems: the pi-calculus download pdf rapidshare mediafire fileserve 4shared torrent