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, ...

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 ...

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 ...