Everything about Concurrent Collections

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Concurrent CollectionsA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: CONCURRENT ENUMERATION OF CD34+ AND CD3+ CELLS IN ALLOGENEIC APHERESIS COLLECTIONS USING A NEW FLOW CYTOMETRY METHODInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Bargaining for competitivenessThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Concurrent CollectionsCited 83 times
5. Go sideways: Richard VuducA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: CilkA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Concurrent Collections

  Zoran Budimlić, Michael Burke, Vincent Cavé · 2010 · Scientific Programming · 83 citations

• Sound, complete, and tractable linearizability monitoring for concurrent collections

  Michael Emmi, Constantin Enea · 2017 · Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages · 24 citations

• A study and toolkit of CHECK‐THEN‐ACT idioms of Java concurrent collections

  Yu Lin, Danny Dig · 2015 · Software Testing, Verification and Reliability · 7 citations

• Measuring the overhead of Intel C++ Concurrent Collections over Threading Building Blocks for Gauss–Jordan elimination

  Peiyi Tang · 2012 · Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience · 4 citations

• Task‐Level Data Model for Hardware Synthesis Based on Concurrent Collections

  Jason Cong, Karthik Gururaj, Peng Zhang · 2012 · Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering · 2 citations

• Applying the concurrent collections programming model to asynchronous parallel dense linear algebra

  Aparna Chandramowlishwaran, Kathleen Knobe, Richard Vuduc · 2010 · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 1 citations

• The Cost and Benefits of Coordination Programming: Two Case Studies in Concurrent Collections and S-NET

  Pavel Zaichenkov, Olga Tveretina, Alex Shafarenko · 2016 · Parallel Processing Letters · 1 citations

• BPS2025 - Probing brain-heart interactions by concurrent collections of fixed brain and unfixed heart

  Phung Thai, Zubayer Ibne Ferdous, Pauline Trinh · 2025 · Biophysical Journal · 0 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• CONCURRENT ENUMERATION OF CD34+ AND CD3+ CELLS IN ALLOGENEIC APHERESIS COLLECTIONS USING A NEW FLOW CYTOMETRY METHOD

  E. Than, Y. Chowdhury, A. Oren · 2026 · Cytotherapy · 0 citations

• Report of the Collections Value/Impact Concurrent Session at the Association of Research Libraries Library Assessment Conference, November 2022

  Anne Koenig, Stephanie Church · 2023 · Technical Services Quarterly · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Bargaining for competitivenessRichard N. Block · 2003
• Negotiating competitivenessKirsten S. Wever · 1995

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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