Arthur J. Bernstein

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Arthur J. Bernstein
Department Chair (1984-1986)
2441 Computer Science
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4400

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Degree: Ph.D. Electrical Engineering - Columbia University, 1962
Research Topics: Transaction processing, concurrent programming, distributed databases, web services.
Selected Publications:
  • A. Bernstein, P. Lewis and S. Lu, "Semantic Conditions for Correctness at Different Isolation Levels", 16the Int'l Conf. on Data Engineering, 2000.
  • A. Bernstein, D. Gerstl and P. Lewis, "Concurrency Control for Step-Decomposed Transactions", Information Systems, vol. 24, No. 8, 1999.
  • A. Bernstein, D. Gerstl, W. Leung and P. Lewis, "Design and Performance of an Assertional Concurrency Control System", 14th Int'l. Conf. on Data Engineering, Orlando Florida, Feb., 1998.
  • A. Bernstein and P. Lewis, "High Performance Transaction Systems Using Transaction Semantics", Distributed and Parallel Dababases, vol. 4 No. 1, Jan., 1996.
  • N. Krishnakumar and A. Bernstein, "Bounded Ignorance: A Technique for Increasing Concurrency in Replicated Systems", ACM Transactions on Database Systems, vol 19, no 4, Dec. 1994.
  • N. Krishnakumar and A. Bernstein, "High Throughput Escrow Algorithms for Replicated Databases", 18th Int'l. Conf. on Very Large Databases, Vancouver, Canada, Aug. 1992.
  • N. Krishnakumar and A. Bernstein, "Bounded Ignorance in Replicated Systems", 10th ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symp. on Principles of Database Systems, May, 1991.
  • D. Agrawal and A. Bernstein, "A Non-blocking Quorum Consensus Protocol for Replicated Data", IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol 2, Apr. 1991.
  • D. Agrawal, A. Bernstein, P. Gupta and S. Sengupta, "Distributed Optimistic Concurrency Control with Reduced Rollback", Distributed Computing, vol 2, no 1, 1987.
  • G. Wuu and A. Bernstein, "Efficient Solutions to the Replicated Log and Dictionary Problems", 3rd ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symp. on Principles of Distributed Computing, Vancouver, Canada, Aug 1984 (reprinted in Operating Systems Review, Jan. 1986).
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