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Wait-free data structures in the asynchronous PRAM model
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Island of Crete, Greece
Pages: 340 - 349  
Year of Publication: 1990
ISBN:0-89791-370-1
Authors
J. Aspnes  School of Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
M. Herlihy  Digital Equipment Corporation, Cambridge Research Laboratory, One Kendall Square, Cambridge MA
Sponsors
IEEE-CS : Computer Society
SIGACT: ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory
SIGARCH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture
CTI : Computer Technology Inst.
EATCS : European Association for Theoretical Computer Science
Computer Tech Inst. : Computer Technology Institute
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  F. Theory of Computation
  F.1 COMPUTATION BY ABSTRACT DEVICES
      F.1.2 Modes of Computation
          Subjects: Parallelism and concurrency

Additional Classification:
  F. Theory of Computation
  F.1 COMPUTATION BY ABSTRACT DEVICES
      F.1.1 Models of Computation
          Subjects: Unbounded-action devices (e.g., cellular automata, circuits, networks of machines)
  F.2 ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS AND PROBLEM COMPLEXITY
      F.2.2 Nonnumerical Algorithms and Problems
          Subjects: Computations on discrete structures

  G. Mathematics of Computing
  G.2 DISCRETE MATHEMATICS


General Terms:
Algorithms, Verification

Collaborative Colleagues:
J. Aspnes: colleagues
M. Herlihy: colleagues

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