Communicating Sequential Processes. The First 25 Years
Symposium on the Occasion of 25 Years of CSP, London, UK, July 7-8, 2004. Revised Invited Papers
Editors: Abdallah, Ali E., Jones, Cliff, Sanders, Jeff W. (Eds.)
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This volume, like the symposium CSP25 which gave rise to it, commemorates the semi-jubilee of Communicating Sequential Processes. 1 Tony Hoare’s paper “Communicating Sequential Processes” is today widely regarded as one of the most in?uential papers in computer science. To comm- orate it, an event was organized under the auspices of BCS-FACS (the British Computer Society’s Formal Aspects of Computing Science specialist group). CSP25 was one of a series of such events organized to highlight the use of formal methods, emphasize their relevance to modern computing and promote their wider application. BCS-FACS is proud that Tony Hoare presented his original ideas on CSP at one of its ?rst meetings, in 1978. The two-day event, 7–8 July 2004, was hosted by London South Bank U- versity’s Institute for Computing Research, Faculty of Business, Computing and Information Management. The intention was to celebrate, re?ect upon and look beyondthe?rstquarter-centuryofCSP’scontributionstocomputerscience. The meeting examined the impact of CSP on many areas stretching from semantics (mathematical models for understanding concurrency and communications) and logic(forreasoningaboutbehavior),throughthedesignofparallelprogramming languages (i/o, parallelism, synchronization and threads) to applications va- ing from distributed software and parallel computing to information security, Web services and concurrent hardware circuits. It included a panel discussion with panelists Brookes, Hoare, de Roever and Roscoe (chaired by Je? Sanders), poster presentations by PhD students and others, featured a ?re alarm (requ- ing evacuation in the rain!) and concluded with the presentation of a fountain pen to Prof. Sir C. A. R. Hoare.
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Retracing the Semantics of CSP
Pages 1-14
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Seeing Beyond Divergence
Pages 15-35
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Process Algebra: A Unifying Approach
Pages 36-60
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Linking Theories of Concurrency
Pages 61-74
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CSP, occam and Transputers
Pages 75-84
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Communicating Sequential Processes. The First 25 Years
- Book Subtitle
- Symposium on the Occasion of 25 Years of CSP, London, UK, July 7-8, 2004. Revised Invited Papers
- Editors
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- Ali E. Abdallah
- Cliff Jones
- Jeff W. Sanders
- Series Title
- Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues
- Series Volume
- 3525
- Copyright
- 2005
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-540-32265-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/b136154
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-540-25813-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIV, 326
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