The sciences of the artificial (3rd ed.)
The sciences of the artificial (3rd ed.)
Synthesis of Resource Invariants for Concurrent Programs
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
High level programming for distributed computing
Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM
Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system
Communications of the ACM
Elements of Software Science (Operating and programming systems series)
Elements of Software Science (Operating and programming systems series)
Behavioral semantics of nonrecursive control structures
Programming Symposium, Proceedings Colloque sur la Programmation
Software physics and computer performance measurements
ACM '72 Proceedings of the ACM annual conference - Volume 2
Simulation methodology: Statistical aspects
WSC '83 Proceedings of the 15th conference on Winter simulation - Volume 1
Hi-index | 48.22 |
Concurrent computational systems, viewed as sets of cooperating processes, are shown to have close analogies in the world of quantum physics. In particular, analogies exist between processes and particles, between a process' state and a particle's mass, between a process'state changes and a particle's velocity, and between interprocess communications and particle interactions. This view allows the application in the computational world of special relativity theory, the uncertainty principle, the law of conservation of momentum, and many of particle physics' fundamental results. This paper describes the basic analogy and some fundamental results. It is the authors' belief that new insights into a computational processes will be gained as the analogy is developed and vice versa. It is conceivable that established results of the computational sciences may contribute to a new understanding of some of the problems of physics. Other process-oriented sciences, such as biology, economics, and psychology, could also benefit from such development.