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POPL
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
High-level small-step operational semantics for transactions
Software transactions have received significant attention as a way to simplify shared-memory concurrent programming, but insufficient focus has been given to the precise meaning o...
Katherine F. Moore, Dan Grossman
GRAPHICSINTERFACE
1996
13 years 9 months ago
Exploring Human Visualization of Computer Algorithms
Many educators have used Algorithm Visualization (AV) to teach students of computer science about how computer algorithms work. Our study sheds light on two important questions: (...
Sarah A. Douglas, Christopher D. Hundhausen, Donna...
ICALP
2010
Springer
14 years 14 days ago
Thresholded Covering Algorithms for Robust and Max-min Optimization
The general problem of robust optimization is this: one of several possible scenarios will appear tomorrow, but things are more expensive tomorrow than they are today. What should...
Anupam Gupta, Viswanath Nagarajan, R. Ravi
ESOP
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Trust Management in Strand Spaces: A Rely-Guarantee Method
We show how to combine trust management theories with nonce-based cryptographic protocols. The strand space framework for protocol analysis is extended by associating formulas from...
Joshua D. Guttman, F. Javier Thayer, Jay A. Carlso...
PLDI
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
Understanding POWER multiprocessors
Exploiting today’s multiprocessors requires highperformance and correct concurrent systems code (optimising compilers, language runtimes, OS kernels, etc.), which in turn requir...
Susmit Sarkar, Peter Sewell, Jade Alglave, Luc Mar...