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Extensions of the UNITY Methodology: Compositionality, Fairness and Probability in Parallelism

By Josyula Ramachandra Rao (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
1995
ISBN
978-3-540-59173-3, 978-3-540-49219-1
DOI
10.1007/3-540-59173-7
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2713456 bytes)
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 908
Edition
1
Pages
178\180
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
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Description

This monograph extends and generalizes the UNITY methodology, introduced in the late 1980s by K. Mani Chandy and Jayadev Misra as a formalism aiding in the specification and verification of parallel programs, in several directions. This treatise further develops the ideas behind UNITY in order to explore and understand the potential and limitations of this approach: first UNITY is applied to formulate and tackle problems in parallelism such as compositionality; second, the logic and notation of UNITY is generalized in order to increase its range of applicability; finally, paradigms and abstractions useful for the design of probabilistic parallel algorithms are developed. Taken together the results presented reaffirm the promise of UNITY as a versatile medium for treating many problems of parallelism.

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