Satisfying Emergency Communication Requirements with Dynamic Preference Control (NOT KNOWN IF PUBLISHED BECAUSE AUTHOR HAS LEFT AT&T)

04 March 1988

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Emergencies and crises must be dealt with immediately and gracefully by communications software. Concurrent, distributed environments must rely on message passing for communication and synchronization between processes and sometimes between processors. Recent concurrent programming languages exploit the processing power of parallel systems by the use of nondeterministic constructs. But military communications software requires strict control of nondeterminism in order to efficiently and immediately handle emergencies and crises that must be anticipated and correctly dealt with.