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User:Allan McInnes/Concurrency project

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This is a not so much a WikiProject, as it is a personal summary of what I feel needs fixing in the area of Concurrency (computer science), and some ideas on how to approach the repairs. It just happens to be structured something like a WikiProject page because that format is good for organizing my thoughts. Nevertheless, feel free to edit this page as though it wasn't in my userspace — input from others is very welcome.

Motivation

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Wikipedia has a large number of articles devoted to different aspects of concurrency. Unfortunately, these articles have been developed in a piecemeal fashion. This has resulted in:

  • Wildly varying article quality.
  • A lot of overlap between the material covered in different articles.
  • A lack of coherent structure — information is scattered and disorganized.
  • Significant gaps in the information that is presented

Goals

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  • Develop individual articles relating to concurrency to the highest-possible standard.
  • Organize the articles relating to concurrency into a coherent structure.
  • Add new articles where necessary to fill in gaps in information on concurrency.

Scope

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Articles relating to concurrency. This includes both the theoretical study of concurrency, and the practicalities of implementing and using concurrency. Articles with a principle focus other than concurrency, but which include concurrency (e.g. Denotational semantics) will probably also receive attention.

To-do list

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  • Work on improving an existing concurrency article.
  • Find concurrency articles not yet included in the structure below, and add them.
  • Figure out where the gaps are, and either add articles, or list them below as to be added.
  • Create an article that needs to be added.
  • Rearrange the structure below to better organize the information.
  • Develop a list of proposed articles merges to unify and structure the content of the project articles.

Topics in concurrency

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Head article

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Theory of concurrency

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Logics for concurrency

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Formal specification languages for concurrent systems

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Tools for analyzing concurrent systems

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Classic problems

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Concurrent interaction

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Practice of concurrency

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Concurrency researchers

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Categories

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Category:Computer science