Atomicity: A Unifying Concept in Computer Science Papers from Dagstuhl Seminar 06121

The concept of atomicity is important to many aspects of computer science. The four papers collected after this introduction come from a second Schloss Dagstuhl seminar that brought together researchers from four different fields to discuss Atomicity. The “manifesto” [JLRW05] from the earlier seminar in 2004 captured the desire of researchers from database, formal methods, hardware and fault tolerance to benefit from each others’ insights.