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We are all familiar with events that can take place concurrently with other, perhaps related, events. The operation of several moving trains on a rail network, the handling of multiple lines of customers at a bank, and the simultaneous operation of multiple devices in a computing system are typical examples. The facilities for parallel processing provide a conceptual framework for dealing with such problems.
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Ledgard, H. (1981). Parallel Processing. In: ADA An Introduction. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0126-4_9
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