Year: 1980
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: This paper proposes the encapsulization and control of contending parallel processes within data structures. The advantage of embedding the contention within data is that the contention, itself, thereby becomes an object which can be handled by the program at a level above the actions of the processes themselves. This means that an indeterminate behavior, never precisely specified by the programmer or by the input, may be shared in the same way that an argument to a function is shared by every use of the corresponding parameter, an ability which is of particular importance to applicative-style programming.
Authors: Daniel P. Friedman, David S. Wise
Institution: Indiana University Bloomington
Language: English
Subfield: Software
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1992643862