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COORDINATION
2004
Springer
14 years 23 days ago
An Operational Semantics for StAC, a Language for Modelling Long-Running Business Transactions
This paper presents the StAC language and its operational semantics. StAC (Structured Activity Compensation) is a business process modelling language and a distinctive feature of t...
Michael J. Butler, Carla Ferreira
POPL
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Coarse-Grained Transactions
Traditional transactional memory systems suffer from overly conservative conflict detection, yielding so-called false conflicts, because they are based on fine-grained, low-level ...
Eric Koskinen, Matthew Parkinson, Maurice Herlihy
PODC
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Transactional predication: high-performance concurrent sets and maps for STM
Concurrent collection classes are widely used in multi-threaded programming, but they provide atomicity only for a fixed set of operations. Software transactional memory (STM) pr...
Nathan Grasso Bronson, Jared Casper, Hassan Chafi,...
PPDP
2005
Springer
14 years 25 days ago
Isolation-only transactions by typing and versioning
In this paper we design a language and runtime support for isolation-only, multithreaded transactions (called tasks). Tasks allow isolation to be declared instead of having to be ...
Pawel T. Wojciechowski
PPOPP
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
McRT-STM: a high performance software transactional memory system for a multi-core runtime
Applications need to become more concurrent to take advantage of the increased computational power provided by chip level multiprocessing. Programmers have traditionally managed t...
Bratin Saha, Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Richard L. Hu...