This is a textbook designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students who are interested in the theoretical problems posed by distributed computing. This abstract focus means that there are few pragmatic examples, more mathematical than programming exercises, and pseudo-code instead of real code examples. The material in the text is mathematical and abstract, so an undergraduate course in algorithms is helpful. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
* Comprehensive introduction to the fundamental results in the mathematical foundations of distributed computing
* Accompanied by supporting material, such as lecture notes and solutions for selected exercises
* Each chapter ends with bibliographical notes and a set of exercises
* Covers the fundamental models, issues and techniques, and features some of the more advanced topics