Hi,
I'm working on a proposed chapter of a collaborative book centered
on Smalltalk technology which Ralph Johnson and Stephane Ducasse
are putting together. I'm putting the draft out in HTML mid-June
to get comments from the book reviewers, but I'd like some words
from the Dolphin crowd first.
The chapter concerns using (Dolphin) Smalltalk to simulate solutions
to the leader election in a ring problem in its asynchronous and
synchronous forms. Multiple threads are run to simulate the nodes
and channels of the ring. The algorithms are based upon Nancy Lynch's
DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHMS text. I'm presenting the algorithms, showcasing
Dolphin, and doing some code transformation by deriving a solution to
the synchronous problem using one of the asynchronous algorithms. I hope
to also put in some Eiffel-like pre- and postcondition assertions as well.
Send expressions of willingness to either:
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or
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Thanks.
The format is HTML, but I could produce wiki version once the
chapter is together for Dolphin's swiki, as long as I can
hold out for permission to do that consistent with the book's
copyright rules. I hope to provide the code as .pac and fileouts.
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