Global systems – systems which may operate over transient networks including mobile elements and in which computation itself may be mobile – are gaining in importance. Neverthe...
Hubert Baumeister, Nora Koch, Piotr Kosiuczenko, P...
Due to the advent of multi-core processors and the consequent need for better concurrent programming abstractions, new synchronization paradigms have emerged. A promising one, kno...
Felipe Goldstein, Alexandro Baldassin, Paulo Cento...
This paper presents database applications of the recently proposed Transaction Logic—an extension of classical predicate logic that accounts in a clean and declarative fashion f...
Anthony J. Bonner, Michael Kifer, Mariano P. Conse...
With the advent of chip-multiprocessors, we are faced with the challenge of parallelizing performance-critical software. Transactional memory (TM) has emerged as a promising progr...
Marek Olszewski, Jeremy Cutler, J. Gregory Steffan