Editing Dataflow (section)

==Concurrency==
A dataflow network is a network of concurrently executing processes or automata that can communicate by sending data over ''channels'' (see [[message passing]].)

In [[Kahn process networks]], named after [[Gilles Kahn]], the processes are ''determinate''. This implies that each determinate process computes a [[continuous function]] from input streams to output streams, and that a network of determinate processes is itself determinate, thus computing a continuous function. This implies that the behavior of such networks can be described by a set of recursive equations, which can be solved using [[fixed point theory]]. The movement and transformation of the data is represented by a series of shapes and lines.