HOPE Publications

Formal Semantics for Expressing Optimism: The Meaning of HOPE
Crispin Cowan and Hanan Lutfiyya. To appear in the 14th Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC'95), August 20-23, 1995, Ottawa, Ontario.
Performance Benefits of Optimistic Programming: A Measure of HOPE
Crispin Cowan, Hanan Lutfiyya, and Mike Bauer. To appear in the Fourth IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-4), August 2-4, 1995, Pentagon City, Virginia.
Optimistic Language Constructs.
Hanan Lutfiyya and Crispin Cowan, presented at the ICSE-17 Workshop on Research Issues in the Intersection of Software Engineering and Programming Languages, Seattle, WA, April 1995.
Optimistic Programming in PVM
Crispin Cowan, 1994 PVM Users' Group Meeting, Oak Ridge, TN, May 1994.
Increasing Concurrency Through Optimism: A Reason for HOPE
Crispin Cowan, Hanan Lutfiyya, and Mike Bauer, 1994 ACM Computer Science Conference, Phoenix, AZ, March 1994.
Optimistic Replication in HOPE
Crispin Cowan, Proceedings of the 1992 CAS Conference, Toronto, Ontario, November 1992.

Dissertation

A Programming Model for Optimism