Overview
- Comprehensive review of formalisms and distributed calculi
- First definition of a concise theory for distributed objects and processes
- Detailed presentation of sound implementation strategies for distribution
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Semantics and Properties
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A Few More Features
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Implementation Strategies
Keywords
About this book
Distributed and communicating objects are becoming ubiquitous. In global, Grid and Peer-to-Peer computing environments, extensive use is made of objects interacting through method calls. So far, no general formalism has been proposed for the foundation of such systems.
Caromel and Henrio are the first to define a calculus for distributed objects interacting using asynchronous method calls with generalized futures, i.e., wait-by-necessity -- a must in large-scale systems, providing both high structuring and low coupling, and thus scalability. The authors provide very generic results on expressiveness and determinism, and the potential of their approach is further demonstrated by its capacity to cope with advanced issues such as mobility, groups, and components.
Researchers and graduate students will find here an extensive review of concurrent languages and calculi, with comprehensive figures and summaries.
Developers of distributed systems can adopt the many implementation strategies that are presented and analyzed in detail.
Preface by Luca Cardelli
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Denis Caromel is full professor at University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis (UNSA). He is also member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), a multi-disciplinary national academia that selects a few professors based on the excellence of their research records. His research interests include parallel, concurrent, and distributed object-oriented programming, the semantics of sequential and parallel languages for the sake of automatic and semi-automatic parallelization.
Ludovic Henrio graduated from Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. He is currently a PHD candidate at University of Nice Sophia Antipolis -- CNRS -- INRIA. His research interests include semantics for concurrent, parallel and distributed calculi, static analysis, design and implementation of object-oriented languages.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Theory of Distributed Objects
Book Subtitle: Asynchrony - Mobility - Groups - Components
Authors: Denis Caromel, Ludovic Henrio
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b138812
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-20866-2Published: 13 April 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-05884-4Published: 13 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-27245-8Published: 14 July 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXII, 352
Topics: Theory of Computation, Logics and Meanings of Programs, Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages, Software Engineering