Specification and Analysis of Concurrent Systems
Subtitle: The COSY Approach
By: by Ryszard Janicki, Peter E. Lauer
Contributors: Lauer, Peter E.
Series: EATCS Monographs in Theoretical Computer Science; EATCS Monographs in Theoretical Computer Science
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9783642773396; 9783642773372
Subjects: Logic design; Computer communication networks; Computer science; Software engineering; Operating systems (Computers)
Description: Concurrent systems abound in human experience but their fully adequate conceptualization as yet eludes our most able thinkers. The COSY (ConcurrentSystem) notation and theory was developed in the last decade as one of a number of mathematical approaches for conceptualizing and analyzing concurrent and reactive systems. The COSY approach extends theconventional notions of grammar and automaton from formal language and automata theory to collections of "synchronized" grammars and automata, permitting system specification and analysis of "true" concurrency without reduction to non-determinism. COSY theory is developed to a great level of detail and constitutes the first uniform and self-contained presentationof all results about COSY published in the past, as well as including many new results. COSY theory is used to analyze a sufficient number of typical problems involving concurrency, synchronization and scheduling, to allow the reader to apply the techniques presented tosimilar problems. The COSY model is also related to many alternative models of concurrency, particularly Petri Nets, Communicating Sequential Processes and the Calculus of Communicating Systems.
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