Subject: Review Report on a paper C575: Advanced Concurrency Control in Java From: Rajkumar Buyya Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 01:01:19 +1100 To: gcf@indiana.edu REFEREE'S REPORT Concurrency and Computation:Practice and Experience ********** A: General Information Please return to: Geoffrey C. Fox Electronically Preferred gcf@indiana.edu Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience Computer Science Department 228 Lindley Hall Bloomington Indiana 47405 Office Phone 8128567977(Lab), 8128553788(CS) but best is cell phone 3152546387 FAX 8128567972 Please fill in Summary Conclusions (Sec. C) and details as appropriate in Secs. D, E and F. B: Refereeing Philosophy C: Paper and Referee Metadata Paper Number Cnnn: C575 Date: Dec. 23, 2001 Paper Title: Advanced Concurrency Control in Java Author(s): P. Felber and M. Reiter Referee: Rajkumar Buyya Address: Monash University, Australia Referee Recommendations. * publish as is (with possible minor updates as suggested) D: Referee Comments (For Editor Only) Good work and highly suitable for the Journal. It will be wonderful if authors can be persuaded to implement a toy concurrent application with their JCF to manage atomic blocks and report experience. E: Referee Comments (For Author and Editor) The paper presents a framework for supporting Atomic Blocks in Java with greater transparency. It proposes various mechanisms for congruency control and suggested approaches with detailed evaluation through simulation. However, there is no/much information about the simulator used in the experiment, I advise authors to include a citation to the simulator used in the experiment since I believe this can helps readers to experiment with the code if they are interested. Since you have JCF implemented framework and proposed how it can be implemented in Java, why not try to implemente it in one of the available open source Java compilers. It will be wonderful if you can also implement a toy concurrent application with your JCF to manage atomic blocks and report results of experience. F: Presentation Changes -- : : Geoffrey Fox gcf@indiana.edu FAX 8128567972 : Phones Cell 315-254-6387 Home 8123239196 Lab 8128567977 CS 8128553788