Abstract—This work considers the problem of reaching consensus in an unreliable linear consensus network. A solution to this problem is relevant for several tasks in multi-agent ...
Fabio Pasqualetti, Antonio Bicchi, Francesco Bullo
Docx2Go is a new framework to support editing of shared documents on mobile devices. Three high-level requirements influenced its design -- namely, the need to adapt content, espe...
Krishna P. N. Puttaswamy, Catherine C. Marshall, V...
The shift to multi-core hardware brings new challenges to database systems, as the software parallelism determines performance. Even though database systems traditionally accommod...
Ryan Johnson, Ippokratis Pandis, Radu Stoica, Mano...
We present three new reader-writer lock algorithms that scale under high read-only contention. Many previous reader-writer locks suffer significant degradation when many readers a...
We have designed, implemented, and evaluated AtomCaml, an extension to Objective Caml that provides a synchronization primitive for atomic (transactional) execution of code. A fir...