Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming and Petri Nets
Subtitle: Advances in Petri Nets (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Contributors: Gul A. Agha (Editor); Fiorella De Cindio (Editor); Grzegorz Rozenberg (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: May 18, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 539
ISBN-13: 9783540419426
Subjects: Object-oriented programming (OOP); Theory Of Computing; Parallel processing (Electroni; General; Petri nets; Object-Oriented Programming; Computers; Computers - Languages / Programming; Operating Systems - General; Science/Mathematics; Object-oriented programming (Computer science); Programming - Object Oriented Programming; Computers / Programming / Software Development; Computer Science; Parallel processing (Electronic computers); Data Processing - Parallel Processing; Object-oriented programming (C
Description: Concurrency and distribution have become the dominant paradigm and concern in computer science. Despite the fact that much of the early research in object-oriented programming focused on sequential systems, objects are a natural unit of distribution and concurrency - as elucidated early on by research on the Actor model. Thus, models and theories of concurrency, the oldest one being Petri nets, and their relation to objects are an attractive topic of study. This book presents state-of-the-art results on Petri nets and concurrent object-oriented programming in a coherent and competent way. The 24 thoroughly reviewed and revised papers are organized in three sections. The first consists of long papers, each presenting a detailed approach to integrating Petri nets and object-orientation. Section II includes shorter papers with emphasis on concrete examples to demonstrate the approach. Finally, section III is devoted to papers which significantly build on the Actor model of computation.