robust-composition---miller-phd-thesis

Robust Composition: Towards a Unified Approach to Access Control and Concurrency Control.

When separately written programs are composed so that they may cooperate, they may instead destructively interfere in unanticipated ways. These hazards limit the scale and functionality of the software systems we can successfully compose. This dissertation presents a framework for enabling those interactions between components needed for the cooperation we intend, while minimizing the hazards of destructive interference.

Dissertation by Mark S Miller. page