Communicating Sequential Processes. The First 25 Years [electronic resource] : Symposium on the Occasion of 25 Years of CSP, London, UK, July 7-8, 2004. Revised Invited Papers /
Symposium on the Occasion of 25 years of CSPCorporate Author
Symposium on the Occasion of 25 years of CSP(2004 :London, England)
Abdallah, Ali E.editor.
Jones, Cliff B.editor.
Sanders, Jeff W.editor.
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.
"The symposium CSP25 ... commemorates the semi-jubilee of ... Tony Hoare's paper 'Communicating sequential processes'"--Pref.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Semantic Foundations -- Retracing the Semantics of CSP -- Seeing Beyond Divergence -- Refinement and Simulation -- Process Algebra: A Unifying Approach -- Linking Theories of Concurrency -- Hardware Synthesis -- CSP, occam and Transputers -- Models for Data-Flow Sequential Processes -- Implementation of Handshake Components -- Transactions -- A Trace Semantics for Long-Running Transactions -- Practical Application of CSP and FDR to Software Design -- Concurrent Programming -- Communicating Mobile Processes -- Model-Based Design of Concurrent Programs -- Linking Theories -- Of Probabilistic wp and CSP—and Compositionality -- Order, Topology, and Recursion Induction in CSP -- Security -- Verifying Security Protocols: An Application of CSP -- Shedding Light on Haunted Corners of Information Security -- Automated Development and Model Checking -- Operational Semantics for Fun and Profit -- On Model Checking Data-Independent Systems with Arrays with Whole-Array Operations -- Industrial Strength CSP -- Industrial Strength CSP: Opportunities and Challenges in Model-Checking -- Applied Formal Methods – From CSP to Executable Hybrid Specifications.
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.
Computer logic.
Programming languages (Electronic computers).
Software engineering.
Computer programming.
Logics and Meanings of Programs.
Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters.
Software Engineering.
Programming Techniques.
Lecture notes in computer science