High-level small-step operational semantics for transactions

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 51-62

  Moore, Katherine F ^a   Grossman, Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

isolation; operational semantics; parallelism; strong atomicity; transactional memory; weak atomicity

Indexed keywords

ISOLATION; OPERATIONAL SEMANTICS; PARALLELISM; STRONG ATOMICITY; TRANSACTIONAL MEMORY; WEAK ATOMICITY;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; FORMAL LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES;

EID: 84865661560     PISSN: 07308566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1328438.1328448     Document Type: Conference Paper

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