CS322: Concurrent Processes and Programming

• Introduction: The Notion and Importance of Concurrent Processes

• Discovering the potential for parallelism inherent in existing sequential algorithms

• Programming language constructs for expressing parallelism

• The interrelation of processes that are part of the same program

• Controlled access to shared data

• Semaphores

• Language-Based Solutions to the Critical Section Problem

• Message Passing

• Concurrency in Ada

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These notes were written by Prof. R. Bjork of Gordon College. In February 1998 they were edited, converted into HTML and augmented by J. Senning of Gordon College.