Explains the operating system's hidden processes, covering memory management, the Virtual Filesystem, process creation and scheduling, signals, essential interfaces, timing, and synchronization in the kernel.

Product Description: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Italian Conference on Algorithms and Complexity, CIAC'97, held in Rome, Italy in March 1997.The 25 revised full papers included in the volume were carefully selected from a total of 74 submissions; also included is an invited paper and an invited abstract...read more

Product Description: Using a balanced approach that is partly algorithmic and partly structuralist, this book systematically reviews the most significant results obtained in the study of computational complexity theory. KEY TOPICS: Considers properties of complexity classes, inclusions between classes, implications between several hypotheses about complexity classes, and identification of structural properties of sets that affect their computational complexity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)