We consider the problem of admission control in resource sharing systems, such as web servers and transaction processing systems, when the job size distribution has high variabili...
We present a general theory for the use of negative premises in the rules of Transition System Specifications (TSSs). We formulate a criterion that should be satisfied by a TSS in ...
During the last decade, software transactional memory (STM) gained wide popularity in many areas of parallel computing. In this paper, we introduce LISP-derived language equipped ...
Abstract. For narrowing to be an efficient evaluation mechanism, several lazy narrowing strategies have been proposed, although typically for the restricted case of left-linear con...
We describe SAFL+: a call-by-value, parallel language in the style of ML which combines imperative, concurrent and functional programming. Synchronous channels allow communication ...