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Denning, P.J., Malone, T.W. (2006). Coordination. In: Goldin, D., Smolka, S.A., Wegner, P. (eds) Interactive Computation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-34874-3_16

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