A hierarchical model for coordination of concurrent activities

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1594, Issue , 1999, Pages 166-182

  Varela, Carlos ^a   Agha, Gul ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALANCING; SEMANTICS;

CONCURRENT ACTIVITIES; CROSS-PLATFORM; EXCEPTION HANDLING; HIERARCHICAL MODEL; MULTICAST PROTOCOL; OPERATIONAL SEMANTICS; RUNTIMES; SAMPLE APPLICATIONS;

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84957601889     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-48919-3_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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