A Theory of Distributed Objects: Asynchrony - Mobility - Groups - Components (Hardcover, 2005)

Part I - Review 1) Analysis - 2) Formalisms and Distributed Calculi Part II - ASP Calculus 3) An Imperative Sequential Calculus - 4) Asynchronous Sequential Processes - 5) A Few Examples Part III - Semantics and Properties 6) Parallel Semantics - 7) Basic ASP Properties - 8) Confluence Property - 9) Determinancy Part IV - A Few More Features 10) More Confluent Features - 11) Non Confluent Features - 12) Migration - 13) Groups - 14) Components - 15) Channels and Reconfigurations Part V - Implementation Strategies 16) A Java API for ASP: ProActive - 17) Future Update - 18) Loosing Rendezvous - 19) Controlling Pipelining - 20) Garbage Collection Part VI - Final Words 21) ASP versus other Concurrent Calculi - 22) Conclusion Appendix A) Equivalence Modulo Future Updates - B) Confluence Proofs