The paper "Precise Detection of Atomicity Violations", co-authored by Vasco Pessanha, Ricardo Dias, and João Lourenço, was accepted at the Haifa Verification Conference (HVC 2012).
The paper "Efficient Support for In-Place Metadata in Transactional Memory" co-authored by Prof. João Lourenço, the PhD student Ricardo Dias, and the MSc student Tiago Vale, was accepted at Euro-Par 2012 (acceptance rate of 33%). It was awarded the title of distinguished paper and will be presented in a sepcial plenary session (with a total of three distinguished papers).
The paper "Verification of Snapshot Isolation in Transactional Memory Java Programs" co-authored by the PhD student Ricardo Dias (FCT-UNL), Dino Distefano (QMU London), João Costa Seco (FCT-UNL), and João Lourenço (FCT-UNL), was accepted to ECOOP 2012 (acceptance rate of 21%).