A concurrent program is one that can execute multiple tasks simultaneously. Concurrency improves a program’s throughput, execution speed, and responsiveness. On a single processor system, concurrent ...

Concurrent and parallel systems form the bedrock of modern computational infrastructures, enabling vast improvements in processing speed, efficiency and scalability. By orchestrating multiple ...

The former lords of multiprocessing in the supercomputing realm have a term for problems that are easily decomposed for distribution to multiple processors. They call such problems “embarrassingly ...

One particular frustration with the UNIX shell is the inability to easily schedule multiple, concurrent tasks that fully utilize CPU cores presented on modern systems. The example of focus in this ...

Mobile process calculi provide a rigorous mathematical framework to model systems wherein processes can change their communication structure dynamically. Rooted in extensions of the π‐calculus, these ...