On blocks: Locality and asynchronous communication

F. S. de Boer, J. N. Kok, C. Palamidessi, J. J.M.M. Rutten

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Abstract

A general construct for locality in languages based on asynchronous communication is introduced which allows a uniform semantic description of such apparently diverse notions as the introduction of local variables in concurrent imperative languages with shared variables and the hiding of logical variables in concurrent constraint languages.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSemantics
Subtitle of host publicationFoundations and Applications - REX Workshop, Proceedings
EditorsJ.W. de Bakker, W.-P. de Roever, G. Rozenberg
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages73-90
Number of pages18
ISBN (Print)9783540565963
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 1993
Externally publishedYes
EventREX Workshop on Semantics-Foundations and Applications, 1992 - Beekbergen, Netherlands
Duration: 1 Jun 19924 Jun 1992

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume666 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceREX Workshop on Semantics-Foundations and Applications, 1992
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityBeekbergen
Period1/06/924/06/92

Keywords

  • Asynchronous communication
  • Block structure
  • Locality
  • Parallelism

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