Concurrent Systems: An Integrated Approach to Operating Systems, Distributed Systems and Databases (Open University Edition)
Language: English
Published by Pearson Education (US), United States, New Jersey, 2002
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Concurrency is at the heart of many topics within computer science and is the focus of this book from Jean Bacon. The successful straightfoward approach, coupled with new material on operating system functions, synchronization, shared memory, middleware, mobile computing and transaction processing will make this book a key core text for courses on concurrent or distributed systems The coverage in this third edition is now wholly relevant to a distributed computing course It provides students with the most up-to-date knowledge of the theory behind modern distributed systems, enabling them to move seamlessly from a first programming course to being able to program operating systems. The book is also suitable for self-study or distance learning and has been proven on a user base of many thousands of students. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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- Title
- Concurrent Systems: An Integrated Approach to Operating Systems, Distributed Systems and Databases (Open University Edition)
- Author
- Jean Bacon
- Publisher
- Pearson Education (US), United States, New Jersey
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0321117883
- ISBN 13
- 9780321117885
- Item weight
- 1,361 grams
- Dimensions
- 234 x 189
In the second edition, an object-oriented paradigm is used as a unifying framework, the principles of concurrency are developed from simple uniprocessor systems through to modern multiprocessor systems with shared memory or in distributed enviroments. The evolution of the concepts leads naturally to transactions, concurrency control and recovery for distributed databases.
Contents (Second edition)
Preface to the second edition.
1.. Introduction: Examples and requirements
PART I: BACKGROUND AND FUNDAMENTALS
2. System structure and dynamic execution
3. The hardware interface, I/O and communications
4. Support for processes
5. Fundamentals of distributed systems
6. Memory management
7. File management
PART II: SINGLE CONCURRENT ACTIONS
8. System structure
9. Low-level synchronization primitives: Implementation
10. Low-level primitives: Use in systems and languages
11. Language primitives for shared memory
12. IPC and system structure
13. IPC without shared memory
14. Crash resilience ad persistent data
15. Distributed IPC
PART III: CONCURRENT COMPOSITE ACTIONS
16. Decomposable abstract operations
17. Resource allocation and deadlock
18. Transactions
19. Concurrency control
20. Recovery
21. Logging and shadowing for crash resilience
21. Distributed transactions
22. Distributed computations
PART IV: SYSTEM CASE STUDIES
23. UNIX
24. Microkernels: Mach and CHORUS
25. Windows NT
26. Middleware: CORBA and Java
27. Transaction processing monitors and systems
APPENDIX: EVOLUTION OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS
Bibliography
Glossary
Author index
Subject index
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About the Author
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