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Concurrent Objects and Beyond

Papers dedicated to Akinori Yonezawa on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday

  • Dedicated to Akinori Yonezawa, who has made pioneering contributions to both theoretical and practical aspects of concurrent object-oriented programming
  • Includes a collection of papers presented at the symposium “Concurrent Objects and Beyond: From Theory to High-Performance Computing”, held in Kobe, Japan in May 2012
  • Chapters are written by international experts working in the field of concurrent objects and high performance computing

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 8665)

Part of the book sub series: Programming and Software Engineering (LNPSE)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

  2. My Early Education and Concurrent Objects

    • Akinori Yonezawa
    Pages 1-17
  3. Object-Oriented Concurrent Programming in ABCL/1

    • Akinori Yonezawa, Jean-Pierre Briot, Etsuya Shibayama
    Pages 18-43
  4. Reflection in an Object-Oriented Concurrent Language

    • Takuo Watanabe, Akinori Yonezawa
    Pages 44-65
  5. Building Safe Concurrency Abstractions

    • Ole Lehrmann Madsen
    Pages 66-104
  6. Structuring Communication with Session Types

    • Kohei Honda, Raymond Hu, Rumyana Neykova, Tzu-Chun Chen, Romain Demangeon, Pierre-Malo Deniélou et al.
    Pages 105-127
  7. SALSA Lite: A Hash-Based Actor Runtime for Efficient Local Concurrency

    • Travis Desell, Carlos A. Varela
    Pages 144-166
  8. Controlling Concurrency and Expressing Synchronization in Charm++ Programs

    • Laxmikant V. Kale, Jonathan Lifflander
    Pages 196-221
  9. MassiveThreads: A Thread Library for High Productivity Languages

    • Jun Nakashima, Kenjiro Taura
    Pages 222-238
  10. Verifiable Object-Oriented Transactions

    • Suad Alagić, Adnan Fazeli
    Pages 251-275
  11. Design and Implementation of a Mobile Actor Platform for Wireless Sensor Networks

    • YoungMin Kwon, Kirill Mechitov, Gul Agha
    Pages 276-316
  12. Objects in Space

    • Wolfgang De Meuter, Andoni Lombide Carreton, Kevin Pinte, Stijn Mostinckx, Tom Van Cutsem
    Pages 317-340
  13. Towards a Substrate Framework of Computation

    • Kazunori Ueda
    Pages 341-366
  14. Event-Based Modularization of Reactive Systems

    • Somayeh Malakuti, Mehmet Aksit
    Pages 367-407
  15. Back Matter

About this book

This Festschrift volume includes a collection of papers written in honor of the accomplishments of Professor Yonezawa on the occasion of his 65th birthday in 2012. With a few exceptions, the papers in this Festschrift were presented at an international symposium celebrating this occasion. Also included are reprints of two of Professor Yonezawa's most influential papers on the programming language ABCL. The volume is a testament strong and lasting impact Professor Yonezawa's research accomplishments as well as the inspiration he has been to colleagues and students alike.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA

    Gul Agha

  • Department of Communications and Computer Engineering, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Atsushi Igarashi

  • Department of Computer Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Naoki Kobayashi

  • Department of Mathematical and Computing Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

    Hidehiko Masuhara

  • Global Scientific Information and Computing Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

    Satoshi Matsuoka

  • Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Etsuya Shibayama

  • Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Department of Information and Communication Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Kenjiro Taura

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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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