Università Roma Tre

Concurrent Programming Fundamentals
• Sequential and Parallel Process
• Finite Progress Assumption, Fairness and Deadlock
• Bernstein conditions, and interference
• Dijkstra Semaphores
• Conditional Critical Regions
• Monitors
• Classic Problems

UNIX: Threads and Processes
• Process creation: fork() & exec()
• IPC: signals, pipes, shared memory, semaphores
• POSIX Threads: pthread_create()
• thread synchronization: mutex, condition variable, semaphores
• thread specific data (TSD)
• Unix Client/Server Programming
• socket API , TCP vs UDP
• Competition problems server side

Java thread
• thread creation
• java monitor
• java cooperation: wait() & notify()
• programming techniques for thread-safeness
• java.util.concurrent API

Advanced Topics
• non-blocking algorithms
• concurrent programs testing
• modello ad attori
• reactive streams

BRIAN GOETZ. JAVA CONCURRENCY IN PRACTICE - ADDISON WESLEY
DOUG LEA. CONCURRENT PROGRAMMING IN JAVA - Second ED. - ADDISON WESLEY
MAURICE HERLIHY, NIR SHAVIT. THE ART OF MULTIPROCESSOR PROGRAMMING - MORGAN KAUFMANN