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Communicating and Mobile Systems - The Pi Calculus (Hardcover)
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Communicating and Mobile Systems - The Pi Calculus (Hardcover)
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Communication is a fundamental and integral part of computing,
whether between different computers on a network, or between
components within a single computer. In this book Robin Milner
introduces a new way of modelling communication that reflects its
position. He treats computers and their programs as themselves
built from communicating parts, rather than adding communication as
an extra level of activity. Everything is introduced by means of
examples, such as mobile phones, job schedualers, vending machines,
data structures, and the objects of object-oriented programming.
But the aim of the book is to develop a theory, the pi-calculus, in
which these things can be treated rigorously. The pi-calculus
differs from other models of communicating behaviour mainly in its
treatment of mobility. The movement of a piece of data inside a
computer program is treated exactly the same as the transfer of a
message--or indeed an entire computer program--across the internet.
One can also describe networks which reconfigure themselves. The
calculus is very simple but powerful; its most prominent ingredient
is the notion of a name. Its theory has two important ingredients:
the concept of behavioural (or observational) equivalence, and the
use of a new theory of types to classify patterns of interactive
behaviour. The internet, and its communication protocols, fall
within the scope of the theory just as much as computer programs,
data structures, algorithms and programming languages. This book is
the first textbook on the subject; it has been long-awaited by
professionals and will be welcome by them, and their students.
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