From a real-time perspective, the Garbage Collector (GC) introduces unpredictable pauses that are not tolerated by real-time tasks. Real-time collectors eliminate this problem but...
Nowadays the 2-Phase-Locking (2PL) concurrency control algorithm still plays a core rule in the construction of transactional systems (e.g. database systems and transactional memo...
Pierangelo di Sanzo, Roberto Palmieri, Bruno Cicia...
In recent software transactional memory proposals, a contention manager module is responsible for ensuring that the system as a whole makes progress. A number of contention manage...
The concept of a SOC platform architecture introduces the concept of a communication infrastructure. In the transaction-level a finite set of architecture components (memories, ar...
Marco Caldari, Massimo Conti, Massimo Coppola, Ste...
Applications of the future will need to support large numbers of clients and will require scalable storage systems that allow state to be shared reliably. Recent research in distr...
Liuba Shrira, Barbara Liskov, Miguel Castro, Atul ...