An incomplete history of concurrency chapter 1. 1965--1977

Transactional memory and speculative locking are optimistic concurrency control mechanisms, whose goal is to enable highly concurrent execution while reducing the programming effort. The same basic idea lies in the heart of both methods: optimistically ...

A review of Creating Components: Object Oriented, Concurrent, and Distributed Computing in Java by Charles W. Kann.

The concurrency of transactions executing on atomic data types can be enhanced through the use of semantic information about operations defined on these types. Hitherto, commutativity of operations has been exploited to provide enchanced concurrency ...