In recent software transactional memory proposals, a contention manager module is responsible for ensuring that the system as a whole makes progress. A number of contention manage...
Transactional memory (TM) is a promising paradigm for concurrent programming. This paper is an overview of our recent theoretical work on defining a theory of TM. We first recall s...
All known structures involving a constructively obtainable fixed point (or iteration) operation satisfy the equational laws defining iteration theories. Hence, there seems to be...