* [Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Synchronization but Were Afraid to Ask](http://sigops.org/sosp/sosp13/papers/p33-david.pdf)

* [Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System](http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs240/readings/lamport.pdf)

* [Heap Architectures For Concurrent Languages Using Message Passing](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.108.1302&rep=rep1&type=pdf)

* [Message Analysis for Concurrent Languages](http://user.it.uu.se/~kostis/Papers/escape.pdf)

* [Finding Race Conditions in Erlang with QuickCheck and PULSE](http://publications.lib.chalmers.se/records/fulltext/125252/local_125252.pdf)