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Process Synchronization Primitives

Process Synchronization Primitives is a fundamental computational mechanism within the class of coordination techniques that enables the controlled execution of concurrent processes by enforcing temporal ordering and mutual exclusion through low-level operations such as semaphores, mutexes, and monitors.

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Communicating sequential processes

C. A. R. Hoare · Communications of the ACM · 1983 · 3.8K citations · Full text

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Wait-free synchronization

Maurice Herlihy · ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems · 1991 · 1.8K citations · Full text

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Distributed processes

Per Brinch Hansen · Communications of the ACM · 1978 · 465 citations

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Distributed algorithms

1996 · 354 citations · Full text

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Basic Techniques for the Efficient Coordination of Very Large Numbers of Cooperating Sequential Processors

Allan Gottlieb, Boris D. Lubachevsky, Larry Rudolph · ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems · 1983 · 283 citations · Full text

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    Maurice Herlihy

    Brown University, United States

    4 publications · 2K citations

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    David Lomet

    Microsoft (United States), United States

    4 publications · 306 citations

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    Robert E. Wells

    The University of Texas at Austin, United States

    3 publications · 172 citations

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    Roy H. Campbell

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States

    3 publications · 150 citations

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    Charles G. Hoch

    The University of Texas at Austin, United States

    3 publications · 172 citations

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  1. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    8 h-index

    16 publications

    558 citations

  2. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    6 h-index

    21 publications

    1.1K citations

  3. IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research Center

    Yorktown Heights, United States

    6 h-index

    7 publications

    352 citations

  4. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    5 h-index

    9 publications

    736 citations

  5. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    4 h-index

    8 publications

    1.3K citations

  6. Brown University

    Providence, United States

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    253 citations

  7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    572 citations

  8. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    235 citations

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  1. ACM SIGPLAN Notices

    13 publications · 518 citations

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  2. Software Practice and Experience

    7 publications · 335 citations

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  4. Communications of the ACM

    5 publications · 748 citations

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