Other
CSP texts and
resources
Other
CSP texts and
resources
The author recommends three other
general texts on CSP.
Hoare's original Communicating
Sequential Processes (Prentice-Hall, 1985) was the first, and
defining text. It can be downloaded here.
This
book
provides an elegant introduction to the notation, philosophy,
and pre-automated reasoning methods for CSP.
The author's first book Theory and
Practice of Concurrency (Prentice-Hall, 1997) is an essential
companion to any in-depth study using UCS since it provides a reference
for much material that the newer book does not cover in detail.
It first appeared online in a modified web edition in 2005. Here is a further slightly modified version: the
changes are (i) slightly different formatting (ii) the removal of an
additional section (on the Bully Algorithm) that was in the original
web edition but not in the print version and (iii) the out-of-date
index in the web edition has been fixed. (The reason for removing the Bully
Algorithm is that the treatment of this was much improved and corrected
for UCS.)
Steve Schneider's book Concurrent
and real-time systems: the CSP approach (Wiley, 1999) provides a
general introduction to CSP but also introduces Timed CSP. The text of
this book can be found here.
There are also two more specialised books:
The
modelling
and
analysis of
security protocols, the CSP approach, by Goldsmith, Lowe,
Roscoe, Ryan and Schneider (Addison Wesley, 2001) contains a brief
general introduction to CSP but, as the title suggests, concentrates
mainly on how to model and analyse security protocols using CSP coupled
with FDR and other tools. It is now available on line here.
Timed CSP (the topic of Chapter 15
of UCS) was originally developed
by the author and Mike Reed, and was taken further by Steve Schneider
(see above) and Jim Davies. Davies' doctoral thesis won the BCS
Distinguished Dissertation Award which resulted it being published as
the book Specification and proof in
real-time CSP (CUP, 1993). It is available on Google
Books.
Web sites of interest to CSP users include the following, each of which
has many links.