Introduction to Distributed Computer Systems

The author obtained the MSc, PhD and habilitation degrees from the University of Warsaw, where he was a professor of informatics at the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics. He spent some years in other universities, like Carnegie-Mellon, Oxford, Ben-Gurion, Humboldt, as visiting professor or a research fellow. Now he is a professor of the Vistula University and professor emeritus of the University of Warsaw. His work encompasses formal and programming languages, compilers, theory of computation, parallel and distributed processing.

• Instruction execution cycle and cooperation of processes.- Distributed systems – objectives, features, applications.- Concurrency.-  Time, coordination, mutual exclusion without supervisory manager.- Interprocess communication.- Remote Procedure Call.- Failures and damages in distributed system.- Distributed Shared Memory.- The control flow during execution of the alternating bit protocol specified by the cause-effect structure.