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SIGPLAN
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Single global lock semantics in a weakly atomic STM
As memory transactions have been proposed as a language-level replacement for locks, there is growing need for well-defined semantics. In contrast to database transactions, transa...
Vijay Menon, Steven Balensiefer, Tatiana Shpeisman...
CONCURRENCY
2000
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13 years 10 months ago
The Java memory model is fatally flawed
The Java memory model described in Chapter 17 of the Java Language Specification gives constraints on how threads interact through memory. This chapter is hard to interpret and po...
William Pugh
TSE
2011
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13 years 5 months ago
A Comparative Study of Software Model Checkers as Unit Testing Tools: An Industrial Case Study
—Conventional testing methods often fail to detect hidden flaws in complex embedded software such as device drivers or file systems. This deficiency incurs significant developmen...
Moonzoo Kim, Yunho Kim, Hotae Kim
ICANN
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Model for Hierarchical Associative Memories via Dynamically Coupled GBSB Neural Networks
Many approaches have emerged in the attempt to explain the memory process. One of which is the Theory of Neuronal Group Selection (TNGS), proposed by Edelman [1]. In the present wo...
Rogério M. Gomes, Antônio de Pá...
ACMMSP
2006
ACM
250views Hardware» more  ACMMSP 2006»
14 years 4 months ago
What do high-level memory models mean for transactions?
Many people have proposed adding transactions, or atomic blocks, to type-safe high-level programming languages. However, researchers have not considered the semantics of transacti...
Dan Grossman, Jeremy Manson, William Pugh