This is a directory of papers related to Thor, a distributed object-oriented database being built by the Programming Methodology group at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. Some contents of this directory: (See also the list of Thor publications)
thor.ps
"Safe and Efficient Sharing of Persistent Objects in Thor"
Status: Appears in SIGMOD 1996
Montreal, Canada, June 1996.
occ.ps
"Safe and Efficient Sharing of Persistent Objects in Thor"
Status: Appears in SIGMOD 1995
San Jose, CA, May 1995.
bidirectional.ps.gz
"Bidirectional Object Layout for Separate Compilation"
Status: Appeared in OOPSLA '95 Proceedings,
Austin, TX, October 1995
dgc.ps
"Fault-Tolerant Distributed Garbage Collection in a Client-Server, Object-Oriented Database"
Status: Appeared in Proceedings of the Parallel and Distributed Information Systems, Austin TX,
September 1994.
disconnected.ps
"Disconnected Operation in the Thor Object-Oriented Database System"
Status: Appeared in Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications,
Santa Cruz, CA Dec '94.
disk-mgmt.ps
"Disk Management for Object-Oriented Databases"
Status: Appeared in the Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Object-Oriented Operating Systems, Asheville, North Carolina, December 1993, pages 222-225. Stable.
dist-mgmt.ps
"Distributed Object Management in Thor."
Status: Appears as pages 79-91 of Distributed Object Management, ed. T. Ozsu, U. Dayal, and P. Valduriez. Morgan Kaufmann, 1993. Stable.
harp-failover.ps
"Efficient Recovery in Harp".
Status: ?
integrity-perf.ps
"Resolving the Integrity/Performance Conflict"
Status: Appeared in the Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Workstation Operating Systems, Napa, California, October 1993, pages 156-159. Stable.
lockup-cache.ps
"Lockup of a Client Object Cache and How to Avoid It"
Status: Appeared in the Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Object-Oriented Operating Systems, Asheville, North Carolina, December 1993, pages 233-235. Stable.
mobile-refs.ps
"References to Remote Mobile Objects in Thor"
Status: Appeared in ACM Letters on Programming Languages and Systems, 1994.
obj-clusters.ps
"Object Clusters May Be Better Than Pages."
Status: Appeared in the Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Workstation Operating Systems, Napa, California, October 1993, pages 119-122.
Stable.
occ.ps
"Efficient Optimistic Concurrency Control Using Loosely Synchronized Clocks"
Status: appeared in SIGMOD'95.
ptypes.ps.gz
"Efficient Implementation of Parameterized Types Despite Subtyping".
Status: A Thor design note, currently unpublished.
param-impl.ps.gz
"Efficient Implementation of Parameterized Types in an Object-Oriented Language".
Status: A placeholder for Programming Methodology Group memo 91.
safe-sharing.ps.gz
"Safe and Efficient Sharing of Persistent Objects in Thor".
Status: to appear in SIGMOD '96
thor-interface.ps
"The Language-Independent Interface of the Thor Persistent Object System"
Status: To appear in a book on object-oriented multidatabases edited by A. Elmagarmid and O. Bukhres, to be published by Prentice-Hall. Stable.
typeobj-param.ps.gz
"A Meta-Object Protocol for Parameterized Types"
Status: presented at the OOPSLA '94 Multi-Language Models Workshop.

Published references not available by ftp:

Barbara Liskov, Paul Johnson, Robert Gruber, and Liuba Shrira, "A Highly Available Object Repository for Use in a Heterogeneous Distributed System." 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.]

Barbara Liskov, Sanjay Ghemawat, Robert Gruber, Paul Johnson, Liuba Shrira, and Michael Williams. "Replication in the Harp File System." Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, October 1991, pages 226-238.

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