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Lookup NU author(s): Professor Eike Best, Professor Brian RandellORCiD
A formal definition is given for an activity to ""appear atomic at some level of abstraction"". This definition is intended to make precise such concepts as ""uninterruptibility of actions"". It is particularly stressed that the notion of atomicity relates intimately to process structure. these definitions from a general framework for applications. We consider two important applications: (a) transaction-orientated database management, (b) error recovery techniques for distributed systems. A miscellany of results is included throughout the text.
Author(s): Best E, Randell B
Publication type: Report
Publication status: Published
Series Title: Computing Laboratory Technical Report Series
Year: 1979
Pages: 54
Report Number: 130
Institution: Computing Laboratory, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne
URL: http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/trs/papers/130.pdf
