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PODC
2005
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Toward a theory of transactional contention managers
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...
Rachid Guerraoui, Maurice Herlihy, Bastian Pochon
ASE
1998
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13 years 5 months ago
Program Understanding as Constraint Satisfaction: Representation and Reasoning Techniques
The process of understanding a source code in a high-level programming language involves complex computation. Given a piece of legacy code and a library of program plan templates, ...
Steven G. Woods, Qiang Yang
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Inter-context control-flow and data-flow test adequacy criteria for nesC applications
NesC is a programming language for applications that run on top of networked sensor nodes. Such an application mainly uses an interrupt to trigger a sequence of operations, known ...
Zhifeng Lai, Shing-Chi Cheung, Wing Kwong Chan
EUROSYS
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Is co-scheduling too expensive for SMP VMs?
Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) virtual machines (VMs) allow users to take advantage of a multiprocessor infrastructure. Despite the advantage, SMP VMs can cause synchronization l...
Orathai Sukwong, Hyong S. Kim
WDAG
2005
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Polymorphic Contention Management
Abstract. In software transactional memory (STM) systems, a contention manager resolves conflicts among transactions accessing the same memory locations. Whereas atomicity and ser...
Rachid Guerraoui, Maurice Herlihy, Bastian Pochon