Bob Gruber's Publications

• Optimism vs. Locking: A Study of Concurrency Control for Client-Server Object-Oriented Databases
  Ph.D. Dissertation, February 1997.

• Subtypes vs. Where Clauses: Constraining Parametric Polymorphism.
  Co-authors: M. Day, B. Liskov, A.C. Myers.
  In Proceedings of OOPSLA '95. Austin TX, October 1995.

• Efficient Optimistic Concurrency Control using Loosely Synchronized Clocks
  Co-authors: A. Adya, B. Liskov, U. Maheshwari.
  In Proceedings of the 1995 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, San Jose, CA, June 1995.

• Disconnected Operation in the Thor Object-Oriented Database System
  Co-authors: F. Kaashoek, B. Liskov, L. Shrira.
  In Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, Santa Cruz, CA, December 1994.

• Temperature-Based Concurrency Control
  In Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Object Orientation in Operating Systems, pages 230--232, Asheville, North Carolina, December 1993.

• The Language-Independent Interface of the Thor Persistent Object System
  Co-authors: B. Liskov, M. Day, S. Ghemawhat, U. Maheshwari, A. Myers, L. Shrira.
  To appear in Object-Oriented Multidatabase Systems (O. Bukhres and A. Elmagarmid, eds.) Prentice-Hall, 1994

• Replication in the Harp File System.
  Co-authors: B. Liskov, S. Ghemawat, P. Johnson, L. Shrira, M. Williams.
  In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, pages 226--238, ACM SIGOPS, Pacific Grove, CA, October 1991. Also available as Technical Memo MIT/LCS/TM-456. M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science, Cambridge, MA, August 1991.

• A Highly Available Object Repository for Use in a Heterogeneous Distributed System
  Co-authors: B. Liskov, P. Johnson, L. Shrira.
  In Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Persistent Object Systems, Martha's Vineyard, September 1990, pages 255-266. [Proceedings published as Implementing Persistent Object Bases: Principles and Practice, ed. Alan Dearle, Gail M. Shaw, and Stanley B. Zdonik. Morgan Kaufmann, 1991.]