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This introductory chapter outlines the main motivations for the study of concurrency theory and the differences with respect to the theory of sequential computation. It also reports the structure of the book and how to use it. Finally, some background material is briefly surveyed.
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Gorrieri, R., Versari, C. (2015). Introduction. In: Introduction to Concurrency Theory. Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21491-7_1
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