Serializability is used to keep the data in the data item in a consistent state. Serializability is a property of a transaction schedule. It relates to the isolation property of a database transaction ...

Abstract: Concurrency bugs are notoriously difficult to detect because there can be vast combinations of interleavings among concurrent threads, yet only a small fraction can reveal them. Atomic-set ...

Nowadays many setups do actually require a seamless combination of "ACID" key-value pairs and "best effort" key-value pairs (imagine analogy TCP packets and UDP packets treatment) in the same ...

This paper presents a method that allows a replicated database system to provide a global isolation level stronger than the isolation level provided on each individual database replica. We propose a ...

A colleague of mine recently ran into an issue that I have not run into myself, but found to be interesting and, in my opinion, worth blogging about here. During some distributed Java development, my ...

Chemical reaction networks are a powerful means of specifying the intended behaviour of synthetic biochemical systems. A high-level formal specification, expressed as a chemical reaction network, may ...

Computer Science Department, University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA, USA ...