Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Department

Computer Science (HMC)

Publication Date

10-1972

Abstract

This paper reports of part of a continuing investigation of parallel computation, in particular, efforts toward understanding the nature of different types of parallel control. The first section defines an asynchronous system to be a simple type of state machine. This was arrived at in an attempt to generalize from the types of control in parallel program schemata and networks of asynchronous modules without bounded delays. Asynchronous systems with output are also defined in a familiar way. The deviation from standard work comes in the definition of a parallel decomposition of asynchronous systems. Some preliminary work on compositions of this type appears in. Such definitions provide a useful analytic tool for discussion of related theories.

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Published conference presentation.

Previously linked to as: http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/irw,344.

The article can also be found at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=4569686&arnumber=4569698&count=28&index=9

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