An introduction to distributed and parallel computing. - Joel M. Crichlow (Prentice Hall, 1988)

Combining Optimism and Pessimism to Produce High Availability in Distributed Transaction Processing. - Joel M. Crichlow (ACM SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev., 1994)

The copar service: Combining optimism and pessimism in accessing replicas. - Joel M. Crichlow; Stephen J. Hartley; Michael Hosein; Claudine Innis (Communications, Internet, and Information Technology, 2004)

A Light-Weight Distributed System for the processing of Replicated Counter-like Objects. - Joel M. Crichlow; Stephen J. Hartley; Michael Hosein (CoRR, 2013)