Abstract
This thesis investigates the applicability of object-oriented programming
to the domain of concurrency control. Approaches to object-oriented
concurrency control are described and evaluated, revealing that many do
not distinguish between different concurrency control problems and do not
recognize the dependencies these problems have on object interfaces and
implementations. This thesis shows that such omissions make inheritance
of concurrency policies complicated and error-prone, and develops an
approach to object concurrency control that avoids both failings. A
separation of the typing and code reuse hierarchies allows subtyping
principles to be applied to the inheritance of synchronization, concurrent
access control, priority and active object properties, resulting in
concurrency control policies that are easily inheritable and incrementally
modifiable. Automated tools are shown to play a large role in this process.
The feasibility of verifying the system using a process calculus is discussed.
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