Seminar on Concurrency [electronic resource] : Carnegie-Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA, July 9–11, 1984 / edited by Stephen D. Brookes, Andrew William Roscoe, Glynn Winskel.

On the axiomatic treatment of concurrency -- Hierarchical development of concurrent systems in a temporal logic framework -- On the composition and decomposition of assertions -- Process algebra with asynchronous communication mechanisms -- Axioms for memory access in asynchronous hardware systems -- Executing temporal logic programs -- The static derivation of concurrency and its mechanized certification -- Semantic considerations in the actor paradigm of concurrent computation -- The pomset model of parallel processes: Unifying the temporal and the spatial -- Lectures on a calculus for communicating systems -- Concurrent behaviour: Sequences, processes and axioms -- Categories of models for concurrency -- Maximally concurrent evolution of non-sequential systems -- An improved failures model for communicating processes -- Denotational semantics for occam -- Linguistic support of receptionists for shared resources -- Applications of topology to semantics of communicating processes -- Denotational models based on synchronously communicating processes: Refusal, acceptance, safety -- The ESTEREL synchronous programming language and its mathematical semantics -- An implementation model of rendezvous communication -- A fully abstract model of fair asynchrony -- Alternative semantics for McCarthy's amb -- Semantics of networks containing indeterminate operators -- Abstract interpretation and indeterminacy -- The NIL distributed systems programming language: A status report.