At the heart of all garbage collectors lies the process of identifying and processing reference fields within an object. Despite its key role, and evidence of many different impl...
Robin Garner, Stephen M. Blackburn, Daniel Frampto...
■ Observers spontaneously segment larger activities into smaller events. For example, “washing a car” might be segmented into “scrubbing,” “rinsing,” and “drying...
Khena M. Swallow, Deanna M. Barch, Denise Head, Co...
The Epigenomics database at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is a new resource that has been created to serve as a comprehensive public resource for whole-...
Ian M. Fingerman, Lee McDaniel, Xuan Zhang, Walter...
Reciprocity is a pervasive concept that plays an important role in governing people’s behavior, judgments, and thus their social interactions. In this paper we present an analys...
We consider the power of objects in the unbounded concurrency shared memory model, where there is an infinite set of processes and the number of processes active concurrently may...