Answering aggregate queries like sum, count, min, max over regions containing moving objects is often needed for virtual world applications, real-time monitoring systems, etc. Sin...
Database application programs are often designed to be executed concurrently by many clients. By grouping related database queries into transactions, DBMS systems can guarantee th...
—Remote atomic memory operations are critical for achieving high-performance synchronization in tightly-coupled systems. Previous approaches to implementing atomic memory operati...
Keith D. Underwood, Michael Levenhagen, K. Scott H...
system during a single processor cycle. But we can abstract out properties of the sequences and focus on the properties of interest. The "specifications" given here are i...
Only a handful of fundamental mechanisms for synchronizing the access of concurrent threads to shared memory are widely implemented and used. These include locks, condition variab...