DESCRIPTION
Mutual exclusion-software and hardware approaches. The correctness requirements of safety, liveness, and fairness. Semaphores, monitors and other concurrent programming constructs. Classical synchronization problems. Axiomatic verification of concurrent algorithms. Models of distributed computation. Distributed termination detection. Time clocks, and ordering of events. Distributed Mutual Exclusion. Deadlocks in distributed systems.
Prereq.: CSc 33200. 3 hr./wk.; 3 cr.
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