Associating synchronization constraints with data in an object-oriented language

Conference Record of the Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 334-345

  Vaziri, Mandana ^a   Tip, Frank ^a   Dolby, Julian ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Concurrent Object Oriented Programming; Data Races; Programming Model; Serializability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

CONCURRENT OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; DATA RACES; PROGRAMMING MODEL; SERIALIZABILITY;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 33745856636     PISSN: 07308566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1111037.1111067     Document Type: Conference Paper

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