Is the Optimism in Optimistic Concurrency Warranted?

@inproceedings {268650,
author = {Donald E. Porter and Owen S. Hofmann and Emmett Witchel},
title = {Is the Optimism in Optimistic Concurrency Warranted?},
booktitle = {11th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS XI)},
year = {2007},
address = {San Diego, CA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotos-xi/optimism-optimistic-concurrency-warranted},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = may
}