This material is based on several different sources: 
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<LI> G. Andrews, "Concurrent Programming: Principles and Practice"; 
<LI> G. Andrews, "Foundations of Parallel and Distributed Programming"; 
<LI> I. Foster, "Designing and Building Parallel Programs"; 
<LI> M. Wolfe, "High Performance Compilers for Parallel Computing"; 
<LI> K. Hwang, "Advanced Computer Architecture: Parallelism, Scalability, 
and Programmability";
<LI> Lecture notes of the "Parallel Programming" course taught by 
Michael Scott at the University of Rochester; and
<LI> Selected scientific papers, including:
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<LI> G. Andrews and F. Schneider, <A HREF="papers/p3-andrews.pdf">
"Concepts and Notations for Concurrent Programming. </A> Computing Surveys,
V. 15, n.1, March, 1983. 
<LI> Bianchini et al., <A HREF="papers/ijpp98.ps"> "Evaluating the Effect of Coherence 
Protocols on the Performance of Parallel Programming Constructs" </A>;
<LI> H. Bal et al., <A HREF="papers/p261-bal.pdf"> "Programming Languages for Distributed Computing 
Systems". </A> Computing Surveys, V. 21, n. 3, September, 1989;
<LI> J. Mellor-Crummey and M. L. Scott, <A HREF="papers/p21-mellor-crummey.pdf"> "Algorithms for Scalable Synchronisation on Shared-Memory Multiprocessors". </A> ACM, TOCS, V. 9, n. 1, pp. 21-65
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