Open distributed systems; formal methods; concepts; requirement specification; system architecture and system behaviour; correctness and conformance; temporal logic; interaction points; communication services; epistemic logic; application examples.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This book presents a new, abstract, and comprehensive view of open distributed systems. Starting point is a small number of core concepts and basic principles, which are informally introduced and precisely defined using mathematical logic. It is shown how the basic concepts of Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) and Open Distributed Processing (ODP), which are currently the most important standardization activities in the context of open distributed systems, can be obtained by specialization and extension of these basic concepts.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing.