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| A _____ program has a single thread of control |
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| A _____ program has multiple threads of control allowing it to perform multiple computations in parallel and to control multiple external activities which occur at the same time |
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| Interacting, concurrent software components of a system: single machine -> _____ _____ interactions; multiple machines -> _____ interactions |
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Why concurrent programming?
_____ _____ from multiprocessing hardware (parallelism)
Increased application _____ (an I/O call need only block one thread)
Increased application _____ (high priority thread for user requests)
More appropriate structure (for programs which interact with the environment, control multiple _____ and handle multiple _____) |
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| Performance gain, throughput, responsiveness, activities, events |
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| Concurrency is widespread but _____ prone |
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| A simplified representation of the real world |
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| Use _____ _____ _____ (_____) to model the process as state machine |
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| Labelled Transition Systems (LTS) |
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| Use _____ _____ _____ (_____) to specify processes |
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| finite state processes (FSP) |
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