Concurrent programming algorithms, principles, and foundations / Michel Raynal.

Author/creator Raynal, M.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoHeidelberg ; New York : Springer-Verlag,
Descriptionxxxii, 515 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Subjects

Contents Lock-Based Synchronization -- The Mutual Exclusion Problem -- Solving Mutual Exclusion -- Lock-Based Concurrent Objects -- On the Foundations Side: the Atomicity Concept -- Atomicity: Formal Definition and Properties -- Mutex-Free Synchronization -- Mutex-Free Concurrent Objects -- Hybrid Concurrent Objects -- Wait-Free Objects from Read/Write Registers Only -- Snapshot Objects from Read/Write Registers Only -- Renaming Objects from Read/Write Registers Only -- The Transactional Memory Approach -- Transactional Memory -- On the Foundations Side: from Safe Bits to Atomic Registers -- Safe, Regular, and Atomic Read/Write Registers -- From Safe Bits to Atomic Bits: Lower Bound and Optimal Construction -- Bounded Constructions of Atomic b-Valued Registers -- On the Foundations Side: the Computability Power of Concurrent Objects (Consensus) -- Universality of Consensus -- The Case of Unreliable Base Objects -- Consensus Numbers and the Consensus Hierarchy -- The Alpha(s) and Omega of Consensus: Failure Detector-Based Consensus.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2012944394
ISBN9783642320262
ISBN3642320260

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