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Real-Time and Multi-Agent Systems

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  • © 2000

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Authors:
  1. Ammar Attoui

    1. Department of Computer Science, University of Savoie, France

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  • A good introduction/practitioner's guide to distributed programming
  • Contains lots of complete examples

Part of the book series: Practitioner Series (PRACT.SER.)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Problems Encountered with Distributed Systems

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    Pages 1-54

  3. Interaction Models

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    Pages 55-101

  4. PVM: Parallel Programming Tools

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    Pages 103-124

  5. Distributed Programming under Unix

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    Pages 125-174

  6. Principles of Real-Time Data Processing

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    Pages 175-237

  7. Prolog III and Real-Time System Engineering

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    Pages 239-305

  8. Parallel Image Processing

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    Pages 307-318

  9. Client-Server Applications under Unix

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    Pages 319-341

  10. Control of a Product Processing Chain

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    Pages 343-374

  11. Management of Persistent Objects

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    Pages 375-401

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 403-466
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About this book

This book is a translation ofthe accomplishment ofthe French engineer Ammar Attoui, who has set out to bring together the works of computer scientists and automotive engineers. Computer scientists have worked on the same type of systems as automotive engineers, but have used different designs, methods and tools. The former call the resultant systems "real-time systems", and the latter call them "discontinuous event systems". Today, telecommunications systems of increasing performance, and increasingly powerful multi-task operating and real­ time systems offer the possibilities of the development of distributed structure applications organized in a group ofasynchronous entities which communicate by the exchange of messages and events. Hence, combining the cultures ofcomputer science and automotive engineering is essential to gain the benefits of unifying their techniques and methods in order to realize this potential. The absence of the global state in distributed systems, which is a result of the absence of a shared memory and unique repository, makes communication via messaging the sole means which can be used under any circumstances. Agents are conceptual communicating entities. The book presents the methods and tech­ niques which are necessary for the concrete implementation ofthe idea ofan agent as an autonomous and reactive computing entity. Multi-agent systems are com­ posed ofa set ofspecialized entities communicating on behalfofa global applica­ tion.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computer Science, University of Savoie, France

    Ammar Attoui

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