- Analysis and Optimization of Explicitly Parallel Programs using the Parallel Program Graph Representation. Vivek Sarkar. Tenth Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 1997.
- Location Consistency: Stepping Beyond the Memory Coherence Barrier. Guang R. Gao and Vivek Sarkar. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Parallel Processing, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, August 1995.
- Data Consistency in Distributed Memory Systems (Extended Abstract). Vivek Sarkar. Proceedings of the 1995 ICPP Workshop on Challenges for Parallel Processing, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, pages 124-132, August 1995.
- Parallel Program Graphs and their Classification. Vivek Sarkar and Barbara Simons. Sixth International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, Portland, Oregon, August 1993. Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 768, pages 633-655, 1993.
- A Concurrent Execution Semantics for Parallel Program Graphs and Program Dependence Graphs. Vivek Sarkar. Fifth Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, Yale University, August 1992. Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1993.