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Lock (computer science)

Known as: Lock contention, Lock, Locking (computer science) 
In computer science, a lock or mutex (from mutual exclusion) is a synchronization mechanism for enforcing limits on access to a resource in an… 
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Jammin' on the Web - a new Client/Server Architecture for Multi-User Musical Performance
This paper describes a software system called the TransJam Server that allows several musicians to log into an Internet web site… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Static fiber-Bragg grating strain sensing using frequency-locked lasers
Novel and highly sensitive static strain interrogation technique is demonstrated, where the sensing element is a fiber-Bragg… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Multipulse operation of a Ti:sapphire laser mode locked by an ion-implanted semiconductor saturable-absorber mirror
We show results obtained from a semiconductor saturable-absorber mirror mode-locked Ti:sapphire soliton laser that was operated… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Fluorescence‐detected wave packet interferometry. II. Role of rotations and determination of the susceptibility
The recently developed technique of time‐resolved spectroscopy with phase‐locked optical pulse pairs is further explored with… 
Review
1991
Review
1991
Monolithic colliding-pulse mode-locked quantum-well lasers
Integration of the whole mode-locked laser onto a single piece of semiconductor offers a number of advantages, including total… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
A characterization of sharing in parallel programs and its application to coherency protocol evaluation
  • S. EggersR. Katz
  • [] The 15th Annual International Symposium on…
  • 1988
  • Corpus ID: 17610766
Trace-driven simulation is used to analyze the memory reference patterns of write-shared data in several parallel applications. A… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
A Minimizing Algorithm for Sum of Disjoint Products
This paper describes a minimizing version of the Abraham sum-of-disjoint products (sdp) algorithm, called the Abraham-Locks… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Decision-driven phase-locked loop for optical homodyne receivers: Performance analysis and laser linewidth requirements
Optical homodyne receivers based on decision-driven phase-locked loops are investigated. The performance of these receivers is… 
Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
Consistency in Hierarchical Database Systems
The problems of locking and consistency m database systems are examined It is assumed that each transacuon, when executed alone… 
Highly Cited
1965
Highly Cited
1965
Techniques of Process Control
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