Communicative Processes: A Model of Communication

Authors

Takayuki D. Kimura, Washington University in St. Louis
Will D. Gillett, Washington University in St. Louis

Document Type

Technical Report

Publication Date

1982-02-01

Filename

WUCS-82-9.pdf

Technical Report Number

WUCS-82-9

Abstract

This paper introduces a conceptual model of communicative organization as a part of the formal semantic study of distributed computation. The model includes, as communication primitives, three independent modes of communication: mailing, posting, and broadcasting. Mailing models thin-wire communication, and posting models shared memory communication. While broadcasting is not prominent in today's parallel programming languages, it has an important role to play in distributed computation. Other fundamental notions in the model are process, symbol, site, process class, symbol class and site class.

Comments

Permanent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7936/K79W0CT9

Recommended Citation

Kimura, Takayuki D. and Gillett, Will D., "Communicative Processes: A Model of Communication" Report Number: WUCS-82-9 (1982). All Computer Science and Engineering Research.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cse_research/899