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A new type of communication between concurrent processes called ‘subjects’ and a synchronization mechanism are presented. Since the communication is carried out only based on reading the internal states of a subject, it is available at any time even in the case of a failure of some subjects.
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Hisano, T., Suwa, M. (1986). Synchronization and communication in the ‘subject’. In: Wada, E. (eds) Logic Programming '85. LP 1985. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 221. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-16479-0_7
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