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020 $a9780511512797 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
037 $bOverDrive, Inc.$nhttp://www.overdrive.com
100 1 $aMilner, Robin $q(Robin Milner).
245 14 $aThe Space and Motion of Communicating Agents$h[electronic resource].
260 $a :$bCambridge University Press,$c2009.
500 $aTitle from eBook information screen.
520 $aThe world is increasingly populated with interactive agents distributed in space, real or abstract. These agents can be artificial, as in computing systems that manage and monitor traffic or health; or they can be natural, e.g. communicating humans, or biological cells. It is important to be able to model networks of agents in order to understand and optimise their behaviour. Robin Milner describes in this book just such a model, by presenting a unified and rigorous structural theory, based on bigraphs, for systems of interacting agents. This theory is a bridge between the existing theories of concurrent processes and the aspirations for ubiquitous systems, whose enormous size challenges our understanding. The book is reasonably self-contained mathematically, and is designed to be learned from: examples and exercises abound, solutions for the latter are provided. Like Milner's other work, this is destined to have far-reaching and profound significance.
533 $aElectronic reproduction.$b :$cCambridge University Press,$d2009.$nRequires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 2155 KB).
538 $aRequires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 2155 KB).
653 #0 $aComputer Technology
653 #0 $aNonfiction
655 7 $aElectronic books.$2local
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