Research Directions in Parallel Functional Programming

by Kevin Hammond (editor)

Part I - Fundamentals Introduction, Foundations, Programming Language Constructs, Proof, Realisations for Strict Languages, Realisations for Non-Strict Languages Part II - Current Research Areas Data Parallelism, Cost Modelling, Shaping Distributions, Performance Monitoring, Memory Performance of Dataflow Programs, Portability of Performance in the BSP Model, Algorithmic Skeletons, Coordination Languages, Parallel and Distributed Programming in Concurrent Clean, Functional Process Modelling, Validating Programs in Concurrent ML, Explicit Parallelism Part III - Conclusions Large Scale Functional Applications, Summary, References, Glossary, Index

524 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1999