Registers
<|reference_start|>Registers: Entry in: Encyclopedia of Algorithms, Ming-Yang Kao, Ed., Springer, To appear.   Synonyms: Wait-free registers, wait-free shared variables, asynchronous communication hardware. Problem Definition: Consider a system of asynchronous processes that communicate among themselves by only executing read and write operations on a set of shared variables (also known as shared registers). The system has no global clock or other synchronization primitives.<|reference_end|>
@article{vitanyi2006registers,
    title={Registers},
    author={Paul M.B. Vitanyi (CWI and University of Amsterdam)},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0612025},
    year={2006},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cs/0612025},
    primaryClass={cs.DC}
}