1. The atomic manifesto
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Henry F. Korth, J. Eliot B. Moss, David B. Lomet, Alan Fekete, Rogério de Lemos, Krithi Ramamritham, Gerhard Weikum, Alexander Romanovsky, Ravi Rajwar, Marie-Claude Gaudel, Cliff B. Jones, Brian Randell, and Luís Rodrigues
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Manifesto ,Hardware architecture ,Atomicity ,Correctness ,Transaction processing ,Programming language ,Computer science ,Fault Tolerance ,Fault tolerance ,Dependability ,computer.software_genre ,Formal methods ,Atomic Actions ,Formal Methods ,Transaction Processing ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Transaction processing system ,Systems design ,Database Systems ,Correctness Reasoning ,computer ,Software ,Information Systems ,General Environmental Science - Abstract
This report summarizes the viewpoints and insights gathered in the Dagstuhl Seminar on Atomicity in System Design and Execution, which was attended by 32 people from four different scientific communities: database and transaction processing systems, fault tolerance and dependable systems, formal methods for system design and correctness reasoning, and hardware architecture and programming languages. Each community presents its position in interpreting the notion of atomicity and the existing state of the art, and each community identifies scientific challenges that should be addressed in future work. In addition, the report discusses common themes across communities and strategic research problems that require multiple communities to team up for a viable solution. The general theme of how to specify, implement, compose, and reason about extended and relaxed notions of atomicity is viewed as a key piece in coping with the pressing issue of building and maintaining highly dependable systems that comprise many components with complex interaction patterns.
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- 2005
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