MANIFOLD: a language for specification of inter-process communication

Abstract: "Management of the communications among a set of concurrent processes arises in many applications and is a central concern in parallel computing. In this paper, we introduce a language whose sole purpose is to describe and manage complex interconnections among independent, concurrent...

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Main Authors: Arbab, Farhad 1952- (Author), Herman, Ivan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam 1990
Series:Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica <Amsterdam>/ Department of Computer Science: Report CS 90,65
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Summary:Abstract: "Management of the communications among a set of concurrent processes arises in many applications and is a central concern in parallel computing. In this paper, we introduce a language whose sole purpose is to describe and manage complex interconnections among independent, concurrent processes. In the underlying paradigm of this language, MANIFOLD, the primary concern is not with what functionality the individual processes in a parallel system provide. Instead, the emphasis is on how these processes are interconnected and how their interaction patterns change during the execution life of the system
It is interesting that the conceptual model behind the MANIFOLD language immediately leads to a very simple, but non-conventional model of computation. Contrary to most other models, computation in MANIFOLD is built out of communications. As such it advocates a view point [sic] reminiscent of the connectionist view: that all (conventional) computation can be expressed as interactions.
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