Distributed Operating Systems - Theory and Practice

This text comprises the edited collection of papers presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute which took place at Altmyunus,

List of contents

1 Formal Aspects of Concurrent Systems.- A Formal Basis for the Specification of Concurrent Systems.- On the Construction of Distributed Programs.- Derivation of Distributed Algorithms.- 2 Design Issues for Distributed Operating Systems.- Design of Highly Decentralised Operating Systems.- Communication Models for Distributed Computation.- New Concepts for Distributed System Structuring.- 3 Hardware Support for Distributed Computing Systems.- Distributed Computing System Architectures: Hardware.- Hardware Support for the Distributed Operating System of the Heidelberg Polyp Processor.- 4 Case Studies.- The Apollo DOMAIN Distributed File System.- The CHORUS Distributed Operating System: Some Design Issues.- The Conic Support Environment for Distributed Systems.- An Experience in Solving a Transaction Ordering Problem in a Distributed System.- Distributed Transaction Processing and The Camelot System.- Worm Programs.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jean-Pierr Banatre (Editor), Jean-Pierre Banatre (Editor), Muslim Bozyigit (Editor), Yakup Paker (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.11.2012
• EAN: 9783642466069
• ISBN: 978-3-642-46606-9
• No. of pages: 379
• Weight: 741 g
• Illustrations: X, 379 p.
• Series: NATO ASI Series F: Computer and Systems Sciences; Nato ASI Subseries F: Nato ASI Series (closed) / Nato ASI Subseries F: (closed); NATO ASI Series; NATO ASI Series F: Computer and Systems Sciences; Nato ASI Subseries F:
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Operating systems, user interfaces