The Second ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Transactional Computing

To be held in conjunction with PODC 2007
Portland, Oregon, August 16, 2007

On-line registration is available until July 25 only, through the PODC website.
Limited on-site registration may also be available.

Like PODC, TRANSACT will be held at the Hilton Portland and Executive Tower.
Click here for hotel information.

Final Program  (includes links to presentation slides)

Call for Papers  (PDF version)

Message from the Program Chair

Accepted Papers  (click here to download an archive)

• An Analysis of I/O and Syscalls in Critical Sections and Their Implications for Transactional Memory
  Lee Baugh and Craig Zilles, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Abstract Nested Transactions
  Tim Harris, Microsoft Research; Srdjan Stipic, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
• High-Level Small-Step Operational Semantics for Transactions
  Katherine F. Moore and Dan Grossman, University of Washington
• Dissecting Transactional Executions in Haskell
  Cristian Perfumo, Nehir Sonmez, Osman S. Unsal, Adrian Cristal, and Mateo Valero, Politècnica de Catalunya; Tim Harris, Microsoft Research Cambridge
• Transactifying Applications Using an Open Compiler Framework
  Pascal Felber, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland; Christof Fetzer, Ulrich Muller, Torvald Riegel, and Martin Susskraut, TU Dresden, Germany; Heiko Sturzrehm, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
• Nested Parallelism in Transactional Memory
  Kunal Agrawal, Jeremy Fineman, and Jim Sukha, MIT
• Capabilities and Limitations of Library-Based Software Transactional Memory in C++
  Luke Dalessandro, Virendra J. Marathe, Michael F. Spear, and Michael L. Scott, University of Rochester
• PhTM: Phased Transactional Memory
  Yosef Lev, Brown University and Sun Microsystems Laboratories; Mark Moir and Dan Nussbaum, Sun Microsystems Laboratories
• NZTM: Nonblocking Zero-Indirection Transactional Memory
  Fuad Tabba, Cong Wang, and James R. Goodman, University of Auckland; Mark Moir, Sun Microsystems Laboratories
• Integrating Transactional Memory into C++
  Lawrence Crowl, Google; Yossi Lev, Brown University and Sun Microsystems; Victor Luchangco, Mark Moir, and Dan Nussbaum, Sun Microsystems
• Solving Difficult HTM Problems Without Difficult Hardware
  Owen S. Hofmann, Donald E. Porter, Christopher J. Rossbach, Hany E. Ramadan, and Emmett Witchel, University of Texas at Austin

GENERAL CHAIR:  Rachid Guerraoui, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

PROGRAM CHAIR:  Michael L. Scott, University of Rochester

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Intel Corporation
Anastassia Ailamaki, Carnegie Mellon University
Hagit Attiya, Technion
Goetz Graefe, HP Labs
Mark Hill, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Suresh Jagannathan, Purdue University
Christos Kozyrakis, Stanford University
Bradley C. Kuszmaul, MIT
Victor Luchangco, Sun Labs
Jan-Willem Maessen, Sun Labs
Martin Odersky, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Simon Peyton-Jones, Microsoft Research
Ravi Rajwar, Intel Corporation
William N. Scherer III, Rice University

WEB TOOLS:  Arrvindh Shriraman, University of Rochester

STEERING COMMITTEE:

Tim Harris, Microsoft Maurice Herlihy, Brown Tony Hosking, Purdue

Doug Lea, SUNY Oswego Eliot Moss, UMass Jan Vitek, Purdue