Everything about Sequential consistency

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Sequential consistencyA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Critical review on negative emerging contaminant removal efficiency of wastewater treatment systems: Concept, consistency and consequencesInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Software EngineeringThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Lower Extremity Function and Subsequent Disability: Consistency Across Studies, Predictive Models, and Value of Gait Speed Alone Compared With the Short Physical Performance BatteryCited 2,349 times
5. Go sideways: Processor consistencyA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Concurrent computingA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Lower Extremity Function and Subsequent Disability: Consistency Across Studies, Predictive Models, and Value of Gait Speed Alone Compared With the Short Physical Performance Battery

  J. M. Guralnik, L. Ferrucci, C. F. Pieper · 2000 · The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences · 2,349 citations

• Sequential covering rule induction algorithm for variable consistency rough set approaches

  Jerzy Błaszczyński, Roman Słowiński, Marcin Szeląg · 2011 · Information Sciences · 206 citations

• Sequential consistency versus linearizability

  Hagit Attiya, Jennifer L. Welch · 1994 · ACM Transactions on Computer Systems · 170 citations

• Influence of Bolus Consistency on Lingual Behaviors in Sequential Swallowing

  Catriona M. Steele, Pascal H.H.M. Van Lieshout · 2004 · Dysphagia · 94 citations

• Consistency of Sequential Needle Biopsy Findings for Thyroid Nodules

  Joel I. Hamburger · 1987 · Archives of Internal Medicine · 70 citations

• Optimal stateless model checking for reads-from equivalence under sequential consistency

  Parosh Aziz Abdulla, Mohamed Faouzi Atig, Bengt Jonsson · 2019 · Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages · 51 citations

• Structural Consistency, Consistency, and Sequential Rationality

  David M. Kreps, Garey Ramey · 1987 · Econometrica · 39 citations

• Verifying sequential consistency on shared-memory multiprocessors by model checking

  S. Qadeer · 2003 · IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems · 38 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Critical review on negative emerging contaminant removal efficiency of wastewater treatment systems: Concept, consistency and consequences

  Manish Kumar, Jayalaxmi Ngasepam, Kiran Dhangar · 2022 · Bioresource Technology · 142 citations

• TFCSRec: Time–frequency consistency based contrastive learning for sequential recommendation

  Yadong Xiao, Jiajin Huang, Jian Yang · 2024 · Expert Systems with Applications · 26 citations

• A Local context enhanced Consistency-aware Mamba-based Sequential Recommendation model

  Zhu Zhang, Bo Yang, Yimeng Lu · 2025 · Information Processing & Management · 14 citations

• Sequential Fusion Based Multi-Granularity Consistency for Space-Time Transformer Tracking

  Kun Hu, Wenjing Yang, Wanrong Huang · 2024 · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 11 citations

• PIR-Sensor-Based Surveillance Tool for Intruder Detection in Secured Environment: A Label-Consistency-Based Modified Sequential Dictionary Learning Approach

  Pubali De, Amitava Chatterjee, Anjan Rakshit · 2022 · IEEE Internet of Things Journal · 11 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Software EngineeringRoger S. Pressman, Bruce Maxim · 1982
• Higher educationJohn C. Smart · 1985
• Game TheoryMichael Maschler, Eilon Solan · 2013
• Campbell biologyLisa A. Urry, Michael L. Cain · 2015
• A primer on memory consistency and cache coherenceDaniel J. Sorin · 2011
• Distributed Algorithms for Message-Passing SystemsMichel Raynal · 2013
• Stochastic processesM. M. Rao · 1995
• Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture VIDaoliang Li · 2013

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

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