Abstract. We design a deadlock-free semantics for a concurrent, functional and imperative programming language where locks are implicitly and univocally associated with pointers. T...
Software defects significantly reduce system dependability. Among various types of software bugs, semantic and concurrency bugs are two of the most difficult to detect. This pape...
Shan Lu, Soyeon Park, Chongfeng Hu, Xiao Ma, Weiha...
Modern scientific experiments can generate hundreds of gigabytes to terabytes or even petabytes of data that may furthermore be maintained in large numbers of relatively small fil...
Wantao Liu, Brian Tieman, Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Ian...
With the current developments in CPU implementations, it becomes obvious that ever more parallel multicore systems will be used even in embedded controllers that require real-time...
This paper describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of a replication scheme to handle Byzantine faults in transaction processing database systems. The scheme compares ...
Ben Vandiver, Hari Balakrishnan, Barbara Liskov, S...