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POPL
2010
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Coarse-Grained Transactions
Traditional transactional memory systems suffer from overly conservative conflict detection, yielding so-called false conflicts, because they are based on fine-grained, low-level ...
Eric Koskinen, Matthew Parkinson, Maurice Herlihy
TLDI
2009
ACM
122views Formal Methods» more  TLDI 2009»
15 years 6 months ago
Towards type-theoretic semantics for transactional concurrency
We propose a dependent type theory that integrates programming, specifications, and reasoning about higher-order concurrent programs with shared transactional memory. The design ...
Aleksandar Nanevski, Paul Govereau, Greg Morrisett
GROUP
2007
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
That's what friends are for: facilitating 'who knows what' across group boundaries
We describe the design and evaluation of K-net, a social matching system to help people learn 'who knows what' in an organization by matching people with skills with tho...
N. Sadat Shami, Y. Connie Yuan, Dan Cosley, Ling X...
OSDI
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Gadara: Dynamic Deadlock Avoidance for Multithreaded Programs
Deadlock is an increasingly pressing concern as the multicore revolution forces parallel programming upon the average programmer. Existing approaches to deadlock impose onerous bu...
Manjunath Kudlur, Scott A. Mahlke, Stéphane...
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CHI
2005
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Work coordination, workflow, and workarounds in a medical context
In this paper we report an ethnographic study of workarounds--informal temporary practices for handling exceptions to normal workflow--in a hospital environment. Workarounds are a...
Marina Kobayashi, Susan R. Fussell, Yan Xiao, F. J...