IV010 Communication and Parallelism

Faculty of Informatics
Spring 2008
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Luboš Brim, CSc. (lecturer)
RNDr. Jakub Chaloupka, Ph.D. (assistant)
RNDr. Pavel Šimeček, Ph.D. (assistant)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Mojmír Křetínský, CSc.
Department of Computer Science – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Luboš Brim, CSc.
Timetable
Thu 10:00–11:50 D2
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The goal is to acquire basic skills that are used for fomal specification and analyzis of communicating systems, including the theoretical background.
Syllabus
  • Introduction, overview of models for concurrent systems. Modelling communication, examples of communicating systems.
  • Language of CCS: synchronisation, actions and transitions, internal communication, semantics of CCS.
  • CCS with value passing and its translation into pure CCS.
  • Equational laws and their applications: classification of combinators, expansion theorem, dynamic and static laws.
  • Bisimulation and equivalence: Strong bisimulation, weak bisimulation, weak congruence, basic properties, solving equations, other equivalences, finite state processes.
  • Temporal properties of processes.
Literature
  • MILNER, Robin. Communicating and mobile systems : the Pi calculus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, xii, 161 s. ISBN 0-521-64320-1. info
  • MILNER, Robin. Communication and concurrency. New York: Prentice Hall, 1989, 260 s. ISBN 0-13-115007-3. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Zkouška je písemná, případně i ústní. Při zadání průběžných testů během semestru, mají tyto podíl nejvýše 30% na závěrečném hodnocení. Pomocné materiály nejsou povoleny.
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
http://www.fi.muni.cz/usr/brim/IV010
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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