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Specification and Analysis of Concurrent Systems

The COSY Approach

Authors:

  1. Ryszard Janicki

    1. Department of Computer Science and Systems, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

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  2. Peter E. Lauer

    1. Department of Computer Science and Systems, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

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Part of the book series: Monographs in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series (EATCS)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. What COSY Is and What It Is For

    • Ryszard Janicki, Peter E. Lauer
    Pages 1-17

  3. Formal Theory of Basic COSY

    • Ryszard Janicki, Peter E. Lauer
    Pages 19-196

  4. High-level COSY Programs and System Design

    • Ryszard Janicki, Peter E. Lauer
    Pages 197-284

  5. COSY Applications

    • Ryszard Janicki, Peter E. Lauer
    Pages 285-354

  6. Comparison of COSY with Other Models

    • Ryszard Janicki, Peter E. Lauer
    Pages 355-394

  7. Historical Perspective

    • Ryszard Janicki, Peter E. Lauer
    Pages 395-405

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 407-482
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About this book

Concurrent systems abound in human experience but their fully adequate conceptualization as yet eludes our most able thinkers. The COSY (ConcurrentSystem) notation and theory was developed in the last decade as one of a number of mathematical approaches for conceptualizing and analyzing concurrent and reactive systems. The COSY approach extends theconventional notions of grammar and automaton from formal language and automata theory to collections of "synchronized" grammars and automata, permitting system specification and analysis of "true" concurrency without reduction to non-determinism. COSY theory is developed to a great level of detail and constitutes the first uniform and self-contained presentationof all results about COSY published in the past, as well as including many new results. COSY theory is used to analyze a sufficient number of typical problems involving concurrency, synchronization and scheduling, to allow the reader to apply the techniques presented tosimilar problems. The COSY model is also related to many alternative models of concurrency, particularly Petri Nets, Communicating Sequential Processes and the Calculus of Communicating Systems.
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  • Department of Computer Science and Systems, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

    Ryszard Janicki, Peter E. Lauer

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