Commonsense understanding of concurrency

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 60-70

  Lewandowski, Gary ^a   Bouvier, Dennis J ^b   Chen, Tzu Y I ^c   Mccartney, Robert ^d   Sanders, Kate ^e   Simon, Beth ^f   Vandegrift, Tammy ^g  

^a XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE   (United States)

^c POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

^d University of Connecticut   (United States)

^e RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM; SOLUTION QUALITY; UNIVERSITY STUDENTS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 77953921637     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1785414.1785438     Document Type: Article

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