Coordination Languages and Models: First International Conference, Coordination '96, Cesena, Italy, April 15-17, 1996 
Subtitle: Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Contributors: Paolo Ciancarini (Editor); Chris Hankin (Editor)
Publisher: Springer
Published: April 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 443
ISBN-13: 9783540610526
Subjects: Computer Communications & Networking; Computer Programming; Miscellaneous Items; Parallel Processing; Parallel processing (Electroni; Congresses; Programming - General; Computers; Computers - Languages / Programming; Computer Books: General; Computer Books: Languages; Networking - General; Distributed processing; Computer Science; Parallel processing (Electronic computers); Electronic data processing
First sentence: The maximum element can in fact be computed by performing the comparisons of the elements in any order : every "confrontation" between two elements cancels the smaller one, and the unique remaining element will be the maximum.