Download or read book Principles of Concurrent and Distributed Programming written by M. Ben-Ari and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2006 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Principles of Concurrent and Distributed Programming provides an introduction to concurrent programming focusing on general principles and not on specific systems. Software today is inherently concurrent or distributed - from event-based GUI designs to operating and real-time systems to Internet applications. This edition is an introduction to concurrency and examines the growing importance of concurrency constructs embedded in programming languages and of formal methods such as model checking.