Sanjeev Khanna, Keshav Kunal, and Benjamin C. Pierce. A Formal Investigation of Diff3. In Arvind and Prasad, editors, Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS), December 2007. [ bib | short version ]

Michael B. Greenwald, Sanjeev Khanna, Keshav Kunal, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Alan Schmitt. Agreeing to Agree: Conflict Resolution for Optimistically Replicated Data. In Shlomi Dolev, editor, International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC), 2006. [ bib | tech report | short version | slides ]

Benjamin C. Pierce. Harmony: The Art of Reconciliation, April 2005. Invited talk at Trusted Global Computing conference, April 2005. [ bib | slides ]

J. Nathan Foster, Michael B. Greenwald, Christian Kirkegaard, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Alan Schmitt. Schema-Directed Data Synchronization. Technical Report MS-CIS-05-02, University of Pennsylvania, March 2005. Supersedes MS-CIS-03-42. [ bib | tech report ]

Benjamin C. Pierce and Jérôme Vouillon. What's in Unison? A Formal Specification and Reference Implementation of a File Synchronizer. Technical Report MS-CIS-03-36, Dept. of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, 2004. [ bib | tech report ]

Benjamin C. Pierce. Harmony: A Synchronization Framework for Tree-Structured Data, September 2003. Slides from a talk presented in several places (Cambridge, Edinburgh, Philadelphia, Princeton) in Fall 2003. [ bib | slides ]

Benjamin C. Pierce, Alan Schmitt, and Michael B. Greenwald. Bringing Harmony to Optimism: A Synchronization Framework for Heterogeneous Tree-Structured Data. Technical Report MS-CIS-03-42, University of Pennsylvania, 2003. Superseded by MS-CIS-05-02. [ bib | tech report ]

Benjamin C. Pierce. Synchronize globally, compute locally, July 2002. Keynote address at Research Day on Global Computing, EFPL, Lausanne. [ bib | slides ]

Benjamin C. Pierce. Unison: A file synchronizer and its specification, 2001. Invited talk at Theoretical Aspects of Computer Software (TACS), Sendai, Japan. [ bib | slides ]

Benjamin C. Pierce. File Synchronization: Theory and Practice, 2001. [ bib | slides ]

S. Balasubramaniam and Benjamin C. Pierce. What is a file synchronizer? In Fourth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom '98), October 1998. Full version available as Indiana University CSCI technical report #507, April 1998. [ bib | tech report | conference version | slides ]