Coordination of distributed and parallel activities in the IWIM model

International Journal of High Speed Computing

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 127-160

  Papadopoulos, George A ^a   Arbab, Farhad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b CWI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coordination languages and models; Distributed and parallel computing models; Software engineering for distributed systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 0342766686     PISSN: 01290533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0129053397000106     Document Type: Article

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