A Discipline of Multiprogramming. - 1. 1 Wide-Area Computing. - 1. 2 An Example: Planning a Meeting. - 1. 3 Issues in Multiprogram Design. - 1. 4 Concluding Remarks. - 1. 5 Bibliographic Notes. - 2 Action Systems. - 2. 1 An Informal View of Action Systems. - 2. 2 Syntax and Semantics of Action Systems. - 2. 3 Properties of Action Systems. - 2. 4 Examples. - 2. 5 Concluding Remarks. - 2. 6 Bibliographic Notes. - 3 An Object-Oriented View of Action Systems. - 3. 1 Introduction. - 3. 2 Seuss Syntax. - 3. 3 Seuss Semantics (Operational). - 3. 4 Discussion. - 3. 5 Concluding Remarks. - 3. 6 Bibliographic Notes. - 4 Small Examples. - 4. 1 Channels. - 4. 2 A Simple Database. - 4. 3 Management of Multilevel Memory: Lazy Caching. - 4. 4 Real-Time Controller; Discrete-Event Simulation. - 4. 5 Example of a Process Network. - 4. 6 Broadcast. - 4. 7 Barrier Synchronization. - 4. 8 Readers and Writers. - 4. 9 Semaphore. - 4. 10 Multiple Resource Allocation. - 4. 11 Concluding Remarks. - 4. 12 Bibliographic Notes. - 5 Safety Properties. - 5. 1 Introduction. - 5. 2 The Meaning of co. - 5. 3 Special Cases of co. - 5. 4 Derived Rules. - 5. 5 Applications. - 5. 6 Theoretical Results. - 5. 7 Concluding Remarks. - 5. 8 Bibliographic Notes. - 5. 9 Exercises. - 5. 10 Solutions to Exercises. - 6 Progress Properties. - 6. 1 Introduction. - 6. 2 Fairness. - 6. 3 Transient Predicate. - 6. 4 ensures leads-to. - 6. 5 Applications. - 6. 6 Theoretical Issues. - 6. 7 Concluding Remarks. - 6. 8 Bibliographic Notes. - 6. 9 Exercises. - 6. 10 Solutions to Exercises. - 7 Maximality Properties. - 7. 1 Introduction. - 7. 2 Notion of Maximality. - 7. 3 Proving Maximality. - 7. 4 Random Assignment. - 7. 5 Fair Unordered Channel. - 7. 6 Faulty Channel. - 7. 7 Concluding Remarks. - 7. 8 Bibliographic Notes. - 8 Program Composition. - 8. 1 Introduction. - 8. 2 Composition by Union. - 8. 3 Examples of Program Union. - 8. 4 Substitution Axiom under Union. - 8. 5 Theoretical Issues. - 8. 6 Concluding Remarks. - 8. 7 Bibliographic Notes. - 8. 8 Exercises. - 8. 9 Solutions to Exercises. - 9 Conditional and Closure Properties. - 9. 1 Introduction. - 9. 2 Conditional Properties. - 9. 3 Closure Properties. - 9. 4 Combining Closure and Conditional Properties. - 9. 5 Concluding Remarks. - 9. 6 Bibliographic Notes. - 10 Reduction Theorem. - 10. 1 Introduction. - 10. 2 A Model of Seuss Programs. - 10. 3 Compatibility. - 10. 4 Loose Execution. - 10. 5 Reduction Theorem and Its Proof. - 10. 6 A Variation of the Reduction Theorem. - 10. 7 Concluding Remarks. - 10. 8 Bibliographic Notes. - 11 Distributed Implementation. - 11. 1 Introduction. - 11. 2 Outline of the Implementation Strategy. - 11. 3 Design of the Scheduler. - 11. 4 Proof of Maximality of the Scheduler. - 11. 5 Refining the Scheduling Strategy. - 11. 6 Designs of the Processors. - 11. 7 Optimizations. - 11. 8 Concluding Remarks. - 11. 9 Bibliographic Notes. - 12 A Logic for Seuss. - 12. 1 Introduction. - 12. 2 Specifications of Simple Procedures. - 12. 3 Specifications of General Procedures. - 12. 4 Persistence and Relative Stability. - 12. 5 Strong Semaphore. - 12. 6 Starvation Freedom in a Resource Allocation Algorithm. - 12. 7 Concluding Remarks. - 12. 8 Bibliographic Notes. - In Retrospect. - A Elementary Logic and Algebra. - A. 1 Propositional Calculus. - A. 2 Predicate Calculus. - A. 2. 1 Quantification. - A. 2. 2 Textual substitution. - A. 2. 3 Universal and Existential quantification. - A. 3 Proof Format. - A. 4 Hoare Logic and Weakest Pre-conditions. - A. 4. 1 Hoare logic. - A. 4. 2 Weakest pre-conditions. - A. 5 Elementary Relational Calculus. - References. Language: English