On the inherent weakness of conditional primitives

Distributed Computing

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 267-277

  Fich, Faith Ellen ^a   Hendler, Danny ^b,d   Shavit, Nir ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c SUN MICROSYSTEMS   (United States)

^d TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Conditionals; Mutual exclusion; Object implementations; Space lower bounds

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONALS; MUTUAL EXCLUSION; OBJECT IMPLEMENTATIONS; SPACE LOWER BOUNDS;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUEUEING NETWORKS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 33646507102     PISSN: 01782770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00446-005-0136-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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