ML with Concurrency

1 Introduction. - 2 The Essence of Concurrent ML. - 2. 1 Introduction. - 2. 2 The Fundamental Ideas. - 2. 3 Overview of CML. - 2. 4 The Semantics of Mini-CML. - 2. 5 Events and Their Algebra. - 2. 6 Expressiveness. - 2. 7 Implementing Concurrency Abstractions in CML. - 2. 8 Conclusions and Related Work. - 3 Concurrency in Poly/ML. - 3. 1 Introduction. - 3. 2 The Poly/ML Concurrency Primitives. - 3. 3 The Uniprocessor Implementation. - 3. 4 A Shared Memory Multiprocessor Implementation. - 3. 5 The Development of a Distributed Implementation. - 3. 5. 1 Additional Primitives. - 3. 6 Implementation on LEMMA. - 4 CCS Programming in an ML Framework: An Account of LCS. - 4. 1 Introduction. - 4. 2 Features of LCS. - 4. 3 Typing Behavior Expressions. - 4. 4 Operational Semantics. - 4. 5 The Implementation Model. - 4. 6 Conclusion. - 5 FACILEFrom Toy to Tool. - 5. 1 Introduction. - 5. 2 Design and Development of FACILE. - 5. 3 Language Features. - 5. 4 Implementation. - 5. 5 Applications. - 5. 6 Conclusion. - 6 A Semantic Theory for ML Higher-Order Concurrency Primitives. - 6. 1 Motivation and Background. - 6. 2 Related Work. - 6. 3 Informal Presentation. - 6. 4 Static Semantics. - 6. 5 Dynamic Semantics. - 6. 6 Conclusion. - Appendix 6. A Semantic Functions. - Appendix 6. B Semantic Rules. - 7 Communication Analysis for Concurrent ML. - 7. 1 Introduction. - 7. 2 Extracting the Communication Topology. - 7. 3 Semantics. - 7. 4 Subject Reduction Property. - 7. 5 Decidability Issues. - 7. 6 Conclusion. - Appendix 7. A Syntactic Properties of the Typing System. - Appendix 7. B Semantic Properties of the Ordering. - Appendix 7. C Semantic Properties of the Typing System. - Appendix 7. D Decidability Issues Concerning the Orderings. - References. Language: English