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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book presents the fundamentals of concurrency theory with clarity and rigor. The authors start with the semantic structure, namely labelled transition systems, which provides us with the means and the tools to express processes, to compose them, and to prove properties they enjoy. The rest of the book relies on Milner's Calculus of Communicating Systems, tailored versions of which are used to study various notions of equality between systems, and to investigate in detail the expressive power of the models considered.
The authors proceed from very basic results to increasingly complex issues, with many examples and exercises that help to reveal the many subtleties of the topic. The book is suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in computer science and engineering, and scientists engaged with theories of concurrency.
Reviews
“This book is an introduction to labelled transition systems and the calculus of communicating systems (CCS) due to Robin Milner. It has been used in a master's course on concurrent systems. There are numerous examples and exercises. … The book is very carefully written and covers a large amount of material at an introductory level, and a motivated student can use it for self-study.” (Kamal Lodaya, Mathematical Reviews, May, 2016)
Authors and Affiliations
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Dipto. di Informatica: Scienza e Ingegneria, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Roberto Gorrieri
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Lab. d'Inform. Fondamentale de Lille CNRS UMR 8022, Univ. des Sciences et Technol. de Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq , France
Cristian Versari
About the authors
Roberto Gorrieri is a professor of computer science of the University of Bologna. His interests include concurrency and the foundations of security analysis and design.
Cristian Versari is an assistant professor of computer science at the Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Lille (LIFL). His interests include concurrent languages and the computational modelling of biological systems.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Introduction to Concurrency Theory
Book Subtitle: Transition Systems and CCS
Authors: Roberto Gorrieri, Cristian Versari
Series Title: Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21491-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-21490-0Published: 11 September 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36638-8Published: 22 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-21491-7Published: 02 September 2015
Series ISSN: 1862-4499
Series E-ISSN: 1862-4502
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 334
Number of Illustrations: 63 b/w illustrations
Topics: Theory of Computation, Mathematics of Computing, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems, Mathematical Logic and Foundations