Design of multithreaded software : the entity-life modeling approach /

• Main Author: Sandén, Bo
• Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, [2011]
• Subjects: Threads (Computer programs); Computer software > Development.; Computer science.; COMPUTERS > Programming > Parallel.; Electronic books.

This book assumes familiarity with threads (in a language such as Ada, C♯, or Java) and introduces the entity-life modeling (ELM) design approach for certain kinds of multithreaded software. ELM focuses on "reactive systems," which continuously interact with the problem environment. These...

Table of Contents:

• Foundations. Introduction
• Support for Multithreading
• State Modeling
• The ELM Way. Entity-Life Modeling
• Design Patterns Based on Event Threads
• Event-Thread Patterns for Resource Sharing
• Simultaneous Exclusive Access to Multiple Resources
• Background and Discussion. Real-Time Software Architectures and Data-Flow Design Approaches
• The Origins of Entity-Life Modeling.