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% distributed and parallel processing, except language definitions

@InProceedings{Abbadi-Skeen-Cristen85,
  Author =	 "Amr El Abbadi and Dale Skeen and Flaviu Cristian",
  Title =	 "An Efficient, Fault-Tolerant Protocol for Replicated
                  Data Management",
  BookTitle =	 "Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGACT/SIGMOD Conference
                  on Principles of Data Base Systems",
  Year =	 1985,
  Organization = ACM,
  Annote =	 "Replication scheme based on the idea of virtual
                  partitions. 18 references."
}

@InCollection{Abramsky90,
  Author =	 "Samson Abramsky",
  Title =	 "A Generalized Kahn Principle for Abstract
                  Asynchronous Networks",
  Booktitle =	 "Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics,
                  5th International Conference",
  Publisher =	 SV,
  Year =	 "1990",
  Volume =	 442,
  Series =	 LNCS,
  Address =	 NY,
  Editor =	 "M. Main and A. Melton and M. Mislove and D Schmidt",
  Pages =	 "1-21",
  Annote =	 "32 references."
}

@TechReport{Aceto-Hennessy88,
  Author =	 "L. Aceto and M. Hennessy",
  Title =	 "Termination, Deadlock and Divergence",
  Institution =	 "Computer Science, School of Cognitive and Computing
                  Sciences, University of Sussex",
  Address =	 "Brighton BN1 9QH",
  Number =	 "6/88",
  Month =	 dec,
  Year =	 1988,
  Annote =	 "Process algebra with explicit representations of
                  successful termination, deadlock and
                  divergence. Analysis of its semantics, both
                  operational and denotational. 27 references."
}

@TechReport{Aceto89,
  Author =	 "L. Aceto",
  Title =	 "On Relating Concurrency and Nondeterminism",
  Institution =	 "Computer Science, School of Cognitive and Computing
                  Sciences, University of Sussex",
  Address =	 "Brighton BN1 9QH",
  Number =	 "6/89",
  Month =	 oct,
  Year =	 1989,
  Annote =	 "CCS-like language whose semantic theory relates
                  concurrency and nondeterminism without reducing the
                  former to the latter. 30 references."
}

@TechReport{Aceto90,
  Author =	 "Luca Aceto",
  Title =	 "A Theory of Testing for ACP",
  Institution =	 "Computer Science, School of Cognitive and Computing
                  Sciences, University of Sussex",
  Address =	 "Brighton BN1 9QH",
  Number =	 "3/90",
  Month =	 may,
  Year =	 1990,
  Annote =	 "Algebraic verification in the theory of testing
                  equivalence. 31 references."
}

@Book{Aceto92,
  Author =	 "Luca Aceto",
  Title =	 "Action refinement in process algebras",
  Publisher =	 "Cambridge University Press",
  Address =	 NY,
  Year =	 1992,
  Annote =	 "ISBN 0-521-43111-5"
}

@Proceedings{Agha-Wegner-Yonezawa89,
  Editor =	 "Gul Agha and Peter Wegner and Akinori Yonezawa",
  Title =	 "ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Object-Based Concurrent
                  Programming",
  Organization = ACM,
  Month =	 apr,
  Year =	 1989,
  Note =	 "ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 24, Number 4"
}

@Book{Agha-Wegner-Yonezawa93,
  Editor =	 "Gul Agha and Peter Wegner and Akinori Yonezawa",
  Title =	 "Research Directions in Concurrent Object-Oriented
                  Programming",
  Publisher =	 MITP,
  Address =	 "Cambridge, Mass.",
  Year =	 1993
}

@Article{Agha90a,
  Author =	 "Gul Agha",
  Title =	 "Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming",
  Journal =	 CACM,
  Year =	 1990,
  Volume =	 33,
  Number =	 9,
  Month =	 sep,
  Pages =	 "125-141",
  Annote =	 "25 references."
}

@InCollection{Agha91,
  Author =	 "Gul Agha",
  Title =	 "The Structure and Semantics of Actor Languages",
  BookTitle =	 "Foundations of Object-Oriented Languages, REX
                  School/Workshop, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands,
                  May/June 1990",
  Publisher =	 SV,
  Year =	 1991,
  Editor =	 "J. W. de Bakker and W. P. de Roever and
                  G. Rozenberg",
  Series =	 LNCS,
  Volume =	 489,
  Pages =	 "1-59",
  Address =	 NY,
  Annote =	 "39 references."
}

@Article{Ahuja-Carlson-Gahlot,
  Author =	 "M. Ahuja and T. Carlson and A. Gahlot",
  Title =	 "Passive-Space and Time View: Vector Clocks for
                  Achieving Higher Performance, Program Correction,
                  and Distributed Computing",
  Journal =	 IEEETSE,
  Volume =	 19,
  Number =	 9,
  Month =	 sep,
  Year =	 1993,
  Pages =	 "845-855",
  Annote =	 "14 references"
}

@Article{Aladhaband-etal93,
  Author =	 "G. Alghband and M.S. Benten and R. Jakob and
                  H. F. Jordan and A. V. Ramanan",
  Title =	 "Language Portability Across Shared Memory
                  MultiProcessors",
  Journal =	 "IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed
                  Systems",
  Volume =	 4,
  Number =	 9,
  Month =	 sep,
  Year =	 1993,
  Pages =	 "1064-1072",
  Annote =	 "24 references"
}

@Book{Alford-etal85,
  Author =	 "M. W. Alford and J. P. Ansart and G. Hommel and
                  L. Lamport and B. Liskov and G. P. Mullery and
                  F. B. Schneider",
  Title =	 "Distributed Systems: Methods and Tools for
                  Specification. An Advanced Course",
  Publisher =	 SV,
  Address =	 NY,
  Year =	 1985,
  Series =	 LNCS,
  Volume =	 190
}

@InProceedings{Allchin-McKendry83,
  Author =	 "J. E. Allchin and M. S. McKendry",
  Title =	 "Synchronization and Recovery of Actions",
  BookTitle =	 "Proceedings of the Second Annual ACM Symposium on
                  Principles of Distributed Computing, Montreal,
                  Canada",
  Month =	 aug,
  Pages =	 "31-44",
  Year =	 1983,
  Organization = ACM,
  Annote =	 "Description of atomicity as found in the Clouds
                  project. 27 references."
}

@Article{Almes-etal85,
  Author =	 "Guy T. Almes and Andrew P. Black and Edward
                  D. Lazowska and Jerre D. Noe",
  Title =	 "The Eden System: A Technical Review",
  Journal =	 IEEESE,
  Volume =	 "SE-11",
  Number =	 1,
  Month =	 jan,
  Year =	 1985,
  Pages =	 "43-58",
  Annote =	 "Interesting checkpointing. The Eden system is an
                  operating system and architecture for distributed
                  programming. Discussion of their implementation. 18
                  references."
}

@TechReport{Alsberg-etal76,
  Author =	 "Peter A. Alsberg and Geneva G. Belford and John
                  D. Day and Enrique Grapa",
  Title =	 "Multi-Copy Resiliency Techniques",
  Type =	 "CAC Document",
  Number =	 202,
  Institution =	 "Center for Advanced Computation, University of
                  Illinois, Urbana, Illinois",
  Month =	 may,
  Year =	 1976,
  Annote =	 "Discusses resiliency, that is not losing data in the
                  face of failures. The techniques are based on
                  primary sites and backups. 2 references."
}

@Article{Alverson-Notkin93,
  Author =	 "G. A. Alverson and D. Notkin",
  Title =	 "Program Structuring for Effective Parallel
                  Portability",
  Journal =	 "IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed
                  Systems",
  Volume =	 4,
  Number =	 9,
  Month =	 sep,
  Year =	 1993,
  Pages =	 "1060-1064",
  Annote =	 "17 references"
}

@Book{Ananda-Srinivasan91,
  Author =	 "Akkihebba L. Ananda and Balasubramaniam Srinivasan",
  Title =	 "Distributed Computing Systems: Concepts and
                  Structures",
  Publisher =	 "IEEE Computer Society Press",
  Year =	 1991,
  Series =	 "IEEE Computer Society Press Reprint Collection",
  Address =	 "Los Alamitos, California",
  Annote =	 "Collection of articles about distributed systems."
}

@Article{Andreoli-Pareschi90,
  Author =	 "Jean-Marc Andreoli and Remo Pareschi",
  Title =	 "LO and Behold! Concurrent Structured Processes",
  Journal =	 SIGPLAN,
  Year =	 1990,
  Volume =	 25,
  Number =	 10,
  Month =	 oct,
  Pages =	 "44-56",
  Note =	 "{\em OOPSLA ECOOP '90 Proceedings}, N. Meyrowitz
                  (editor).",
  Annote =	 "24 references."
}

@Article{Andrews-Olsson86,
  Author =	 "Gregory R. Andrews and Ronald A. Olsson",
  Title =	 "The Evolution of the SR Language",
  Journal =	 "Distributed Computing",
  Volume =	 1,
  Number =	 2,
  Month =	 apr,
  Year =	 1986,
  Note =	 "Also University of Arizona TR 85-22."
}

@Article{Andrews-Schneider83,
  Author =	 "Gregory R. Andrews and Fred B. Schneider",
  Title =	 "Concepts and Notations for Concurrent Programming",
  Journal =	 ACMCS,
  Volume =	 15,
  Number =	 1,
  Pages =	 "3-43",
  Month =	 mar,
  Year =	 1983
}

@Article{Andrews-etal87,
  Author =	 "Gregory R. Andrews and Richard D. Schlichting and
                  Roger Hayes and Titus D. M. Purdin",
  Title =	 "The Design of the Saguaro Distributed Operating
                  System",
  Journal =	 IEEETSE,
  Volume =	 "SE-13",
  Number =	 1,
  Pages =	 "104-118",
  Month =	 jan,
  Year =	 1987,
  Annote =	 "Features support for communication connections,
                  semitransparent file replication and access, pools
                  of server processes, decentralized allocation
                  protocols, and support for type checking. 39
                  references."
}

@Article{Andrews-etal88,
  Author =	 "Gregory R. Andrews and Ronald A. Olsson and Michael
                  Coffin and Irving Elshoff and Kelvin Nilsen and
                  Titus Purdin and Gregg Townsend",
  Title =	 "An Overview of the SR Language and Implementation",
  Journal =	 TOPLAS,
  Volume =	 10,
  Number =	 1,
  Pages =	 "51-86",
  Month =	 jan,
  Year =	 1988,
  Annote =	 "38 references."
}

@TechReport{Andrews90,
  Author =	 "Gregory R. Andrews",
  Title =	 "Paradigms for Process Interaction in Distributed
                  Programs",
  Institution =	 "Department of Computer Science, The University of
                  Arizona",
  Address =	 "Tucson, Arizona",
  Number =	 "TR 89-24a",
  Month =	 may,
  Year =	 1990,
  Annote =	 "67 references."
}

@Article{Andrews91a,
  Author =	 "Gregory R. Andrews",
  Title =	 "Paradigms for Process Interaction in Distributed
                  Programs",
  Journal =	 ACMCS,
  Year =	 1991,
  Volume =	 23,
  Number =	 1,
  Month =	 mar,
  Pages =	 "49-90",
  Annote =	 "69 references."
}

@Book{Andrews91b,
  Author =	 "Gregory R. Andrews",
  Title =	 "Concurrent Programming: Principles and Practice",
  Publisher =	 "The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company",
  Year =	 1991,
  Annote =	 "hundreds of references."
}

@Article{Aridor-Choen-Yehudai98,
  author =	 {Yariv Aridor and Shimon Choen and AmiramYehudai},
  title =	 {Design of an Actor Language for Implicit Parallel
                  Programming},
  journal =	 SIGPLAN,
  year =	 1998,
  volume =	 33,
  number =	 6,
  month =	 jun,
  pages =	 {39-47},
  annote =	 {12 references.}
}

@Article{Arora-Kulkarni98,
  author =	 {Anish Arora and Sandeep S. Kulkarni},
  title =	 {Component Based Design of Multitolerant Systems},
  journal =	 IEEETSE,
  year =	 1998,
  volume =	 24,
  number =	 1,
  month =	 jan,
  pages =	 {63-78},
  annote =	 {27 references.}
}

@TechReport{Arun-Kumar-Hennessy90,
  Author =	 "S. Arun-Kumar and M. Hennessy",
  Title =	 "An Efficiency Preorder for Processes",
  Institution =	 "Computer Science, School of Cognitive and Computing
                  Sciences, University of Sussex",
  Address =	 "Brighton BN1 9QH",
  Number =	 "5/90",
  Month =	 jul,
  Year =	 1990,
  Annote =	 "14 references."
}

@InProceedings{Atkinson-Hewitt77,
  Author =	 "R. Atkinson and C. Hewitt",
  Title =	 "Synchronization in Actor Systems",
  BookTitle =	 "Conference Record of the Fourth Annual ACM Symposium
                  on Principles of Programming Languages",
  Month =	 jan,
  Year =	 1977,
  Pages =	 "267-280"
}

@Book{Atkinson-Moreton-Natali88,
  Author =	 "Colin Atkinson and Trevor Moreton and Antonio
                  Natali",
  Title =	 "Ada for distributed systems",
  Publisher =	 "Cambridge University Press",
  Address =	 "Cambridge",
  Year =	 1988,
  Annote =	 "49 references."
}

@Article{Babaoglu87,
  Author =	 {\"{O}zalp Babao\~{g}lu},
  Title =	 "On the Reliability of Consensus-Based Fault-Tolerant
                  Distributed Computing Systems",
  Journal =	 TOCS,
  Volume =	 5,
  Number =	 4,
  Month =	 nov,
  Year =	 1987,
  Pages =	 "394-416",
  Annote =	 "Models times of machine failure as a stocastic
                  process and derives reliability estimates for
                  various algorithms and other parameters. Estimates
                  of reliability where a bound on the number of
                  failures is unknown. 32 references."
}

@Article{Bal-Kaashoek93,
  Author =	 "Henri E Bal and M.Frans Kaashoek",
  Title =	 "Object Distribution in Orca using Compile -Time and
                  Run-Time Techniques",
  Journal =	 SIGPLAN,
  Volume =	 28,
  Number =	 10,
  Month =	 oct,
  Year =	 1993,
  Note =	 "{\em OOPSLA '93 Proceedings}, Andreas Paepcke
                  (editor).",
  Pages =	 "162-177",
  Annote =	 "37 references."
}

@Article{Bal-Steiner-Tanenbaum89,
  Author =	 "Henri E. Bal and Jennifer G. Steiner and Andrew
                  S. Tanenbaum",
  Title =	 "Programming Languages for Distributed Computing
                  Systems",
  Journal =	 ACMCS,
  Volume =	 21,
  Number =	 3,
  Month =	 sep,
  Year =	 1989,
  Pages =	 "261-322",
  Annote =	 "Survey with extensive bibliography."
}

@Article{Bal-Tanenbaum91,
  Author =	 "Henri E. Bal and Andrew S. Tanenbaum",
  Title =	 "Distributed Programming with Shared Data",
  Journal =	 "Computer Languages",
  Year =	 1991,
  Volume =	 16,
  Number =	 2,
  Pages =	 "129-146"
}

@PhDThesis{Bal89,
  Author =	 "Henri Elle Bal",
  Title =	 "The Shared Data-Object Model as a Paradigm for
                  Programming Distributed Systems",
  School =	 "Vrije Universiteit te Amsterdam",
  Year =	 1989,
  Annote =	 "Hundreds of references."
}

@Book{Bal90,
  Author =	 "Henri E. Bal",
  Title =	 "Programming Distributed Systems",
  Publisher =	 "Silicon Press",
  Year =	 1990,
  Address =	 "Summit, NJ"
}

@Article{Barborak-Malek-Dahbura93,
  Author =	 "Micheal Barborak and Miroslaw Malek and Anton
                  Dahbura",
  Title =	 "The Consensus problem in Fault tolerant Computing",
  Journal =	 ACMCS,
  Year =	 1993,
  Volume =	 25,
  Number =	 2,
  Pages =	 "171-220",
  Annote =	 "150 references"
}

@Manual{Bartlett77,
  Author =	 "Joel F. Bartlett",
  Title =	 "A NonStop Operating System",
  Organization = "Tandem Computers, Inc.",
  Year =	 1977,
  Annote =	 "Discusses process pairs and other high level topics
                  in the architecture of Tandem's operating system. 8
                  references."
}

@Article{Belloch96,
  author =	 {Guy E. Belloch},
  title =	 {Programming Parallel Algorithms},
  journal =	 CACM,
  year =	 1996,
  volume =	 39,
  number =	 3,
  month =	 mar,
  pages =	 {85-97},
  annote =	 {25 references.}
}

@InProceedings{Ben-Or83,
  Author =	 "Michael Ben-Or",
  Title =	 "Another Advantage of Free Choice: Completely
                  Asynchronous Agreement Prototols",
  BookTitle =	 "Proceedings of the Second Annual ACM Symposium on
                  Principles of Distributed Computing, Montreal,
                  Canada",
  Month =	 aug,
  Year =	 1983,
  Pages =	 "27-30",
  Annote =	 "Probabilistic solution to the asynchronous agreement
                  or commit problem. Not very efficient unless the
                  number of faulty processors is assumed to be less
                  than the square root of the number of processors. 4
                  references."
}

@TechReport{Ben-Zvi90,
  Author =	 "Boaz Ben-Zvi",
  Title =	 "Disconnected Actions: An Asynchronous Extension to a
                  Nested Atomic Action System",
  Institution =	 MITLCS,
  Year =	 1990,
  Number =	 475,
  Address =	 "Cambridge, Mass.",
  Month =	 jan
}

@InProceedings{Benton-Cardelli-Fournet02,
  author =	 {Nick Benton and Luca Cardelli and C\'{e}dric Fournet},
  title =	 {Modern Concurrency Abstractions for {C\#}},
  booktitle =	 {ECOOP 2002 --- Object-Oriented Programming, 16th
                  European Conference, M\'{a}alaga, Spain,
                  Proceedings},
  pages =	 {415-440},
  year =	 2002,
  editor =	 {Boris Magnusson},
  volume =	 2374,
  series =	 LNCS,
  address =	 {Berlin},
  month =	 jun,
  publisher =	 SV,
  annote =	 {29 references.}
}

@Article{Bernstein-Goodman81,
  Author =	 "Philip A. Bernstein and Nathan Goodman",
  Title =	 "Concurrency Control in Distributed Database Systems",
  Journal =	 ACMCS,
  Volume =	 13,
  Number =	 2,
  Month =	 jun,
  Year =	 1981,
  Pages =	 "185-221",
  Annote =	 "Taxonomy and discussion of distributed concurrency
                  control methods. 83 references and a partial index
                  of references organized by subjects."
}

@Article{Bernstein-Goodman83,
  Author =	 "Philip A. Bernstein and Nathan Goodman",
  Title =	 "Multiversion Concurrency Control -- Theory and
                  Algorithms",
  Journal =	 TODS,
  Volume =	 8,
  Number =	 4,
  Month =	 dec,
  Year =	 1983,
  Pages =	 "465-483",
  Annote =	 "Theorems about serializability and 1 copy
                  serializability. Analysis of multiversion
                  timestamping, multiversion locking, and a hybrid
                  protocol. 21 references."
}

@Article{Bernstein-Goodman84,
  Author =	 "Philip A. Bernstein and Nathan Goodman",
  Title =	 "An Algorithm for Concurrency Control and Recovery in
                  Replicated Distributed Databases",
  Journal =	 TODS,
  Volume =	 9,
  Number =	 4,
  Month =	 dec,
  Year =	 1984,
  Pages =	 "596-615",
  Annote =	 "Algorithm that handles detectable site failures but
                  not partitions. Basic idea is to read from one copy
                  and write to all available copies. 34 references."
}

@InProceedings{Berry-Milner-Turner92,
  Author =	 "Dave Berry and Robin Milner and David Turner",
  Title =	 "A semantics for ML concurrency primitives",
  BookTitle =	 "Conference Record of the Nineteenth Annual ACM
                  SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of
                  Programming Languages",
  Year =	 1992,
  Pages =	 "119-129",
  Organization = ACM,
  Month =	 jan,
  Annote =	 "18 references."
}

@Article{Birman93,
  Author =	 "Kenneth P. Birman",
  Title =	 "The Process Group Approach to Reliable Distributed
                  Computing",
  Journal =	 CACM,
  Month =	 dec,
  Year =	 1993,
  Volume =	 36,
  Number =	 12,
  Pages =	 "36-53",
  Annote =	 "37 references"
}

@Article{Birrell-Nelson84,
  Author =	 "Andrew D. Birrell and Bruce J. Nelson",
  Title =	 "Implementing Remote Procedure Calls",
  Journal =	 TOCS,
  Volume =	 2,
  Number =	 1,
  Month =	 feb,
  Year =	 1984,
  Pages =	 "39-59",
  Annote =	 "Description of their implementation of RPCs. 15
                  references."
}

@Article{Birrell-etal82,
  Author =	 "Andrew D. Birrell and Roy Levin and Roger M. Needham
                  and Michael D. Schroeder",
  Title =	 "Grapevine: An Exercise in Distributed Computing",
  Journal =	 CACM,
  Volume =	 25,
  Number =	 4,
  Month =	 apr,
  Year =	 1982,
  Pages =	 "260-274",
  Annote =	 "Description of the design and implementation of
                  Grapevine, which is a mail, naming, authentication
                  and catalog service. The system makes a best effort
                  to send updates and messages but essentially makes
                  no guarantees. 13 references."
}

@InProceedings{Birrell-etal86,
  Author =	 "Andrew D. Birrell and Butler W. Lampson and Roger
                  M. Needham and Michael D. Schroeder",
  Title =	 "A Global Authentication Service without Global
                  Trust",
  BookTitle =	 "IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Oakland",
  Month =	 apr,
  Year =	 1986,
  Pages =	 "223-230",
  Organization = IEEE,
  Annote =	 "Design of an authentication service ofr a large
                  scale, long lifetime, distributed system. Method
                  makes explicit trust relationships. 8 references."
}

@Article{Birrell85,
  Author =	 "Andrew D. Birrell",
  Title =	 "Secure Communication Using Remote Procedure Calls",
  Journal =	 TOCS,
  Volume =	 3,
  Number =	 1,
  Month =	 feb,
  Year =	 1985,
  Pages =	 "1-14",
  Annote =	 "Protocols for use in a remote procedure call package
                  for end-to-end security. Based on
                  conversations. Provides authentication, encryption
                  and prevention of playbacks. 12 references."
}

@TechReport{Birrell89,
  Author =	 "Andrew D. Birrell",
  Title =	 "An Introduction to Programming with Threads",
  Month =	 jan,
  Year =	 1989,
  Institution =	 DECSRC,
  Number =	 35,
  Annote =	 "17 references."
}

@Article{Black-etal86,
  Author =	 "Andrew Black and Norman Hutchinson and Eric Jul and
                  Henry Levy",
  Title =	 "Object Structure in the {E}merald System",
  Journal =	 SIGPLAN,
  Volume =	 21,
  Number =	 11,
  Month =	 nov,
  Year =	 1986,
  Pages =	 "78-86",
  Note =	 "OOPSLA '86 Conference Proceedings, Norman Meyrowitz
                  (editor), September 1986, Portland, Oregon.",
  Annote =	 "Emerald is an object-based language for distributed
                  programming. Notion of conformity encapsulates
                  syntactic subtyping rules. Distinctions between
                  local and global objects hidden by language. Objects
                  created by explicit constructors, code sharing is
                  managed by the kernel, and abstract types provide a
                  classification scheme that is independent of an
                  object's implementation. 24 references."
}

@Article{Black-etal87,
  Author =	 "Andrew Black and Norman Hutchinson and Eric Jul and
                  Henry Levy and Larry Carter",
  Title =	 "Distribution and Abstract Types in Emerald",
  Journal =	 IEEETSE,
  Volume =	 "SE-13",
  Number =	 1,
  Pages =	 "65-76",
  Month =	 jan,
  Year =	 1987,
  Annote =	 "Overview of Emerald and comparison with other
                  distributed programming languages. Abstract types
                  are interfaces that allow subtyping. Some
                  implementation considerations. 35 references."
}

@TechReport{Black-etal88,
  Author =	 "David L. Black and David B. Golub and Karl Hauth and
                  Avadis Tevanian and Richard Sanzi",
  Title =	 "The Mach Exception Handling Facility",
  Institution =	 CMU,
  Month =	 apr,
  Year =	 1988,
  Number =	 "CMU-CS-88-129",
  Annote =	 "10 references."
}

@Article{Blasgen-etal79,
  Author =	 "Mike Blasgen and Jim Gray and Mike Mitoma and Tom
                  Price",
  Title =	 "The Convoy Phenomenon",
  Journal =	 SIGOPS,
  Volume =	 13,
  Number =	 2,
  Pages =	 "20-25",
  Month =	 apr,
  Year =	 1979,
  Annote =	 "Describes how convoys of processes waiting for locks
                  form and some suggestions about how to avoid them. 4
                  references."
}

@InCollection{Bloom-Meyer90,
  Author =	 "Bard Bloom and Albert R. Meyer",
  Title =	 "Experimenting with Process Equivalence",
  BookTitle =	 "Semantics for Concurrency, Leicester",
  Publisher =	 SV,
  Year =	 1990,
  Editor =	 "M. Z. Kwiatkowska and M. W. Shields and
                  R. M. Thomas",
  Series =	 "Workshops in Computing",
  Pages =	 "81-95",
  Address =	 NY,
  Annote =	 "21 references."
}

@TechReport{Bloom79a,
  Author =	 "Toby Bloom",
  Title =	 "Synchronization Mechanisms for Modular Programming
                  Languages",
  Institution =	 MITLCS,
  Number =	 211,
  Month =	 jan,
  Year =	 1979,
  Annote =	 "This master's thesis evaluates the expressive power
                  of various synchronization mechanisms. 35
                  references."
}

@InProceedings{Bloom79b,
  Author =	 "T. Bloom",
  Title =	 "Evaluating Synchronization Mechanisms",
  BookTitle =	 "Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium on Operating
                  Systems Principles",
  Organization = ACM,
  Pages =	 "24-32",
  Month =	 dec,
  Year =	 1979
}

@TechReport{Bloom83,
  Author =	 "Toby Bloom",
  Title =	 "Dynamic Module Replacement in a Distributed
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  Month =	 mar,
  Year =	 1983,
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  Institution =	 MITLCS,
  Annote =	 "Unit of replacement in Argus is the subsystem. Need
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                  module definition place limits on dynamic
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  Journal =	 "IEEE Computer",
  Month =	 jan,
  Year =	 1984
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@InProceedings{Borr81,
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  Organization = IEEE,
  Month =	 sep,
  Year =	 1981,
  Pages =	 "155-165",
  Annote =	 "Description of the application-level transaction
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  title =	 {A compositional approach to superimposition},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium
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  year =	 {1988},
  isbn =	 {0-89791-252-7},
  pages =	 {240--249},
  location =	 {San Diego, California, United States},
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  annote =	 {31 references.}
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@Book{Burns-Wellings98,
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@TechReport{Burrows-Abadi-Needham,
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@InProceedings{Cardelli95b,
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                  analysis of the results. Shows that multiversion
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  Journal =	 CACM,
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  Month =	 apr,
  Year =	 1989,
  Pages =	 "444-458",
  Annote =	 "Compares the Linda parallel language model to other
                  paradigms for parallel programming: message passing,
                  concurrent logic programming, and functional
                  languages. 35 references."
}

@Article{Carriero-Gelernter89b,
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  Journal =	 ACMCS,
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  Pages =	 "323-357",
  Annote =	 "Paradigms: parallel computation of elements of a
                  data structure, adgenda parallelism, specialist
                  parallelism. Linda as example language. 47
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@Article{Castellano-Michelis-Pomello87,
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  Year =	 1987,
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@Article{Chan-Sarin85,
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  Annote =	 "Survey of 3 projects at CCA. These are based on
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@Article{Chandy-Lamport85,
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@TechReport{Clamen-etal89,
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@TechReport{Coffin89,
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@InProceedings{Cristian-etal85,
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@Article{Davidson-Garcia-Molina-Skeen,
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@TechReport{Day-etal93a,
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  Institution =	 MITLCS
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@TechReport{Day87,
  Author =	 "Mark S. Day",
  Title =	 "Replication and Reconfiguration in a Distributed
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  Institution =	 MITLCS
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@Article{Decouchant86,
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  Note =	 "OOPSLA '86 Conference Proceedings, Norman Meyrowitz
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@InCollection{Degano-Gorrieri-Vigna93,
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@inproceedings{Deng-etal02,
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@Article{Dolev-Dwork-Stockmeyer87,
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  Number =	 1,
  Month =	 jan,
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@InProceedings{Dolev-Rieschuk-Strong82,
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  BookTitle =	 "23rd Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer
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  Organization = IEEE,
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@InProceedings{Dolev-Strong82a,
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  BookTitle =	 "Proceedings of the 14th Annual ACM Symposium on
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  Month =	 may,
  Year =	 1982,
  Pages =	 "401-407",
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@InProceedings{Dolev-Strong82b,
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  Title =	 "Distributed Commit with Bounded Waiting",
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@TechReport{Dolev-Strong82c,
  Author =	 "D. Dolev and H. R. Strong",
  Title =	 "Authenticated Algorithms for Byzantine Agreement",
  Institution =	 "IBM Research Laboratory, San Jose",
  Year =	 1982,
  Month =	 mar,
  Number =	 "RJ3416"
}

@InProceedings{Dolev81,
  Author =	 "D. Dolev",
  Title =	 "Unanimity in an Unknown and Unreliable Environment",
  BookTitle =	 "22nd Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer
                  Science, Nashville",
  Year =	 1981,
  Organization = IEEE,
  Month =	 oct,
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@Article{Dolev82,
  Author =	 "D. Dolev",
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  Volume =	 3,
  Pages =	 "14-30",
  Year =	 1982,
  Note =	 "Also Stanford Tech. Rep. STAN-CS-81-846, February
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@TechReport{Duke-etal93,
  Author =	 "Roger Duke and Cecily Bailes and Graeme Smith",
  Title =	 "Modelling Reactive Objects",
  Number =	 "93-1",
  Institution =	 "Software Verification Research Center, The
                  University of Queensland",
  Address =	 "Queensland, Australia",
  Year =	 1993,
  Month =	 jan
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@Article{Herlihy87a,
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  Volume =	 5,
  Number =	 3,
  Month =	 aug,
  Year =	 1987,
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                  allows availability to be traded against
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}

@Article{Herlihy87b,
  Author =	 "Maurice Herlihy",
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  Number =	 2,
  Month =	 jun,
  Year =	 1987,
  Pages =	 "170-194"
}

@Article{Herlihy89,
  Author =	 "Maurice P. Herlihy",
  Title =	 "Taking Concurrency Seriously",
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  Year =	 1989,
  Volume =	 24,
  Number =	 4,
  Month =	 apr,
  Pages =	 "32-33",
  Note =	 "Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN workshop on
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  Annote =	 "3 references."
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  Journal =	 JACM,
  Year =	 1990,
  Volume =	 37,
  Number =	 2,
  Month =	 apr,
  Pages =	 "257-278"
}

@Article{Herlihy91,
  Author =	 "Maurice Herlihy",
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  Year =	 1991,
  Volume =	 13,
  Number =	 1,
  Month =	 jan,
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  Annote =	 "31 references."
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  Year =	 1993,
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@TechReport{Hewitt-Baker77,
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  Institution =	 MITLCS,
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  Year =	 1985
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  Month =	 nov,
  Year =	 1986,
  Pages =	 "67-77",
  Note =	 "OOPSLA '86 Conference Proceedings, Norman Meyrowitz
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                  provides uniform object references, protected object
                  capabilities, and efficient cross domain object
                  communication object operation
                  invocation. Matchmaker is an interface specification
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@InProceedings{Joung-Smolka92,
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                  SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of
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  Year =	 1992,
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@Article{Joyce-etal87,
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  Number =	 2,
  Month =	 may,
  Year =	 1987,
  Pages =	 "121-150",
  Annote =	 "Collection, interpretation, and display of
                  information about the interactions of concurrently
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@Article{Jul-etal88,
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  Number =	 1,
  Month =	 feb,
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@Article{Jun-Gruenwald98,
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  annote =	 {17 references.}
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  editor =	 "B. Gilchrist",
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  booktitle =	 "Information Processing '77: Proceedings of the IFIP
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  publisher =	 "North-Holland",
  year =	 1977
}

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  year =	 {1993},
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}

@TechReport{Kiehn89,
  Author =	 "Astrid Kiehn",
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  Institution =	 "Computer Science, School of Cognitive and Computing
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  Address =	 "Brighton BN1 9QH",
  Number =	 "7/89",
  Month =	 dec,
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  Annote =	 "17 references."
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@TechReport{Ladin-Liskov-Shrira88,
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  Month =	 jan,
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@TechReport{Lamport-Melliar-Smith82,
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  Institution =	 "SRI International, Computer Science Laboratory"
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@Article{Lamport-Melliar-Smith86,
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  Month =	 jul,
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@TechReport{Lamport-Schneider89,
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                  reasoning about a courser-grained version. 10
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@Article{Lamport-Shostak-Pease82,
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                  Multiprocess Systems",
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  Year =	 1978,
  Pages =	 "95-114"
}

@Article{Lamport78b,
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@TechReport{Lamport80a,
  Author =	 "L. Lamport",
  Title =	 "The Weak Byzantine Generals Problem",
  Institution =	 "Computer Science Laboratory, SRI International",
  Number =	 58,
  Year =	 1980,
  Month =	 nov,
  Note =	 "To appear in JACM"
}

@Article{Lamport80b,
  Author =	 "Leslie Lamport",
  Title =	 {The "Hoare Logic" of Concurrent Programs},
  Journal =	 "Acta Informatica",
  Year =	 1980,
  Pages =	 "21-37",
  Volume =	 14,
  Number =	 1
}

@Article{Lamport83,
  Author =	 "Leslie Lamport",
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  Journal =	 TOPLAS,
  Month =	 apr,
  Year =	 1983,
  Pages =	 "190-222",
  Volume =	 5,
  Number =	 2,
  Annote =	 "Method for specifying program modules in a
                  concurrent program. New kinds of temporal
                  assertions. 11 references."
}

@Article{Lamport84a,
  Author =	 "Leslie Lamport",
  Title =	 "Using Time Instead of Timeout for Fault-Tolerant
                  Distributed Systems",
  Month =	 apr,
  Year =	 1984,
  Volume =	 6,
  Number =	 2,
  Journal =	 TOPLAS,
  Pages =	 "254-280",
  Annote =	 "Clock-driven algorithm for implementing distributed
                  systems. 14 references."
}

@InProceedings{Lamport84b,
  Author =	 "Leslie Lamport",
  Title =	 "Solved Problems, Unsolved Problems and Non-Problems
                  in Concurrency",
  BookTitle =	 "Proceedings of the Third Annual ACM Symposium on
                  Principles of Distributed Computing",
  Year =	 1984,
  Organization = ACM,
  Pages =	 "?",
  Note =	 "Reprinted in SIGOPS Operating Systems Review,
                  Vol. 19, Number 4, Oct. 1985, pages 34-44.",
  Annote =	 "Discusses why priority cannot be specified, among
                  other things. 4 references."
}

@Article{Lamport85,
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  Number =	 2,
  Month =	 jan,
  Year =	 1985,
  Pages =	 "313-348"
}

@Article{Lamport86,
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  Volume =	 1,
  Pages =	 "77-101",
  Annote =	 "Discussion of true concurrency."
}

@Article{Lamport89,
  Author =	 "Leslie Lamport",
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  Year =	 1989,
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@TechReport{Lamport93,
  Author =	 "Leslie Lamport",
  Title =	 "How to Make a Correct Multiprocess Program Execute
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  Institution =	 DECSRC,
  Month =	 feb,
  Year =	 1993,
  Annote =	 "97 references."
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@InCollection{Lampson-Sturgis81,
  Author =	 "B. W. Lampson",
  Title =	 "Atomic Transactions",
  BookTitle =	 "Distributed Systems--Architecture and
                  Implementation",
  Year =	 1981,
  Publisher =	 SV,
  Series =	 LNCS,
  Volume =	 105,
  Address =	 NY,
  Pages =	 "246-265",
  Note =	 "This is a revised version of Lampson and Sturgis's
                  unpublished {\em Crash Recovery in a Distributed
                  Data Storage System}.",
  Annote =	 "Discusses physical devices and their failure modes,
                  how to build stable storage and transactions on top
                  of them."
}

@Book{Lampson81,
  Author =	 "B. W. Lampson (ed.)",
  Title =	 "Distributed Systems--Architecture and
                  Implementation",
  Year =	 1981,
  Publisher =	 SV,
  Series =	 LNCS,
  Volume =	 105,
  Address =	 NY,
  Annote =	 "This volume contains several papers and a extensive
                  bibliography"
}

@InProceedings{Lampson86,
  Author =	 "Butler W. Lampson",
  Title =	 "Designing a Global Name Service",
  BookTitle =	 "Fifth ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed
                  Computing, Calgary, Alberta",
  Month =	 aug,
  Year =	 1986,
  Organization = ACM,
  Pages =	 "?"
}

@InProceedings{Lansky-Owicki83,
  Author =	 "Amy L. Lansky and Susan S. Owicki",
  Title =	 "GEM: A Tool for Concurrency Specification and
                  Verification",
  BookTitle =	 "ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of
                  Distributed Computing, Montreal Quebec, Canada",
  Organization = ACM,
  Pages =	 "198-212",
  Month =	 aug,
  Year =	 1983,
  Annote =	 "Event-oriented model of concurrency and a
                  specification/verification system based on it called
                  GEM for Group Element Model. Specifications are
                  restrictions over computations, described by
                  elements and grouped in various ways. Can use
                  temporal logic on histories. 29 references."
}

@TechReport{Lansky83,
  Author =	 "Amy L. Lansky",
  Title =	 "Specification and Analysis of Concurrency",
  Institution =	 "Stanford University, Department of Computer Science",
  Number =	 "STAN-CS-83-993",
  Year =	 1983,
  Month =	 dec,
  Annote =	 "The author's Ph. D. thesis. Event-oriented model of
                  concurrency and a specification/verification system
                  based on it called GEM for Group Element
                  Model. Specifications are restrictions over
                  computations, described by elements and grouped in
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  Editor =	 "B. W. Lampson",
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  Publisher =	 SV,
  Series =	 LNCS,
  Volume =	 105,
  Address =	 NY
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@Book{Lea:00,
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  pages =	 "352",
  year =	 "1996",
  series =	 "The Java series",
  annote =	 "Some references"
}

@TechReport{Leavens86,
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  Month =	 may,
  Year =	 1986,
  Institution =	 MITLCS
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@TechReport{Leavens87,
  Author =	 "Gary T. Leavens",
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  Number =	 148,
  Month =	 mar,
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  Institution =	 MITLCS
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@TechReport{Leavens89b,
  Author =	 "Gary T. Leavens",
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@TechReport{Lin-Ahamad89,
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@TechReport{Liskov-Herlihy-Gilbert84,
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@TechReport{Liskov-Herlihy83,
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  Number =	 38,
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@Article{Liskov-Scheifler83,
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@TechReport{Liskov-Shrira-Wroclawski90,
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  Institution =	 MITLCS,
  Year =	 1990,
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@Article{Liskov-etal87b,
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@TechReport{Liskov-etal87c,
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  Institution =	 MITLCS,
  Year =	 1987,
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@TechReport{Liskov-etal88,
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@TechReport{Liskov-etal90a,
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  Institution =	 MITLCS,
  Year =	 1990,
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@TechRepot{Liskov-etal90b,
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@InCollection{Liskov-etal99,
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