Boolean logic treats disjunction and conjunction symmetrically and algebraically. The corresponding operations for computation are respectively nondeterminism (choice) and concurr...
Future space missions such as the Mars Science Laboratory demand the engineering of some of the most complex manrated autonomous software systems. According to some recent estimat...
Damian Dechev, Nicolas Rouquette, Peter Pirkelbaue...
In this paper, we present a Grid computing platform that provides experimental scientists and analysts with access to computational simulations and knowledge databases hosted in s...
Xingchen Chu, Andrew Lonie, Peter Harris, S. Randa...
Software Transactional Memory (STM) promises to simplify concurrent programming without requiring specific hardware support. Yet, STM’s credibility lies on the extent to which ...
Aleksandar Dragojevic, Pascal Felber, Vincent Gram...
The memory consistency model is a fundamental system property characterizing a multiprocessor. The relative merits of strict versus relaxed memory models have been widely debated ...
Alexander Jaffe, Thomas Moscibroda, Laura Effinger...