Distributed multithreaded software systems are becoming more and more important in modern networked environment. For these systems, concurrency control and thread synchronization ...
It is difficult to determine the cost effectiveness of program analysis tools because we cannot evaluate them in the same environment where we will be using the tool. Tool evalua...
Non-determinism is a serious impediment to testing and debugging concurrent programs. Such programs do not execute the same way each time they are run, which can hide the presence ...
Dryad is a general-purpose distributed execution engine for coarse-grain data-parallel applications. A Dryad application combines computational “vertices” with communication ...
Michael Isard, Mihai Budiu, Yuan Yu, Andrew Birrel...
Process-oriented programming is a design methodology in which software applications are constructed from communicating concurrent processes. A process-oriented design is typically ...
Carl G. Ritson, Adam T. Sampson, Fred R. M. Barnes