Transactional memory systems represent a paradigm shift in concurrent programming by abstracting low-level lock management and enabling sequences of operations to be executed as atomic transactions.

A fundamental overview of operating systems (OSes) with an emphasis on practice. Topics covered include: OS structure, OS models, OS abstractions, concurrency sources, concurrency challenges, ...

As more people move into South Carolina, local governments have to make sure the roads, sewers and schools can serve the growing population. One way to make sure jurisdictions have the necessary ...

Analysis of Boundedness and Safeness in a Petri Net-Based Specification of Concurrent Control Systems is a timely and rigorous new resource from Bentham Science for computer scientists, control ...

In a database management system (DBMS), concurrency control manages simultaneous access to a database. It prevents two users from editing the same record at the same time and also serializes ...