Concurrent Programming: Principles and Practice (Paperback)

by Greg Andrews (Author)

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This book provides an in-depth overview of underlying principles as well as practical techniques that can be used to design concurrent programs. Anyone interested in sequential and concurrent computing will find this book to be an essential reference and innovative work. Andrews's shows how to approach key decisions, discusses the tradeoffs between how processes should be used, and explains how those processes should interact.

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This book provides an in-depth overview of underlying principles as well as practical techniques that can be used to design concurrent programs. Anyone interested in sequential and concurrent computing will find this book to be an essential reference and innovative work. Andrews shows how to approach key decisions, discusses the tradeoffs between how processes should be used, and explains how those processes should interact.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 550 pages
• Publisher: Addison Wesley (July 12, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0805300864
• ISBN-13: 978-0805300864
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.8 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #228,067 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars It's a bit heavy stuff but well organized text book, April 3, 2000

By	Agus Susanto (Solo, Indonesia) - See all my reviews

It is a good book for anyone who wants to lecture in concurrent programming.This book will also help anyone explain the confusion among concurrent, parallel and distributed programs which have been around for the last three decades. The author touches the same three underlying concepts : processes, communication and synchronization. The ten chapters of the book is organized into four parts : basic concepts, shared variables, message passing and pratice. The first part, basic concepts, provides a formal presentation to introduce an assertional proof techniques for sequential and concurrent programming. The second and third parts, shared variables and message passing, elaborates the two major categories of synchronization technique in concurrent programming. Systematic method to solve synchronization problems are described throughout the chapters in two. In the last part, practice, the author provides an overview of five concurrent languanges : Turing Plus, Occam, Ada, SR and Linda. Comparison and performance experiments of all languanges are also provided in the last chapter. The book also includes some classic concurrent programming problems such as critical sections, producers and consumers, readers and writers, the dining philosophers and resource allocation. The 'Historical Notes and References' provided at the end of every chapter is a plus in which it provides citations to relevant literature and more insights to the related subject.