Towards a computational model for UFO

John Sargeant; Chris Kirkham; Steve Anderson

Towards a computational model for UFO

John Sargeant
, Chris Kirkham
, Steve Anderson

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This paper motivates and outlines a general-purpose, architecture independent, parallel computational model, which captures the intuitions which underlie the design of the United Functions and Objects programming language. The model has two aspects, which turn out to be a traditional dataflow model and an actor-like model, with a very simple interface between the two. Certain aspects of the model, particularly strictness, maximum parallelism, and lack of suspension are stressed. The implications of introducing stateful objects are carefully spelled out. The model has several purposes, although we largely describe it as it would be used for visualizing the execution of programs.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IFIP Transactions A: Computer Science and Technology\|IFIP Trans A Comput Sci Technol
Place of Publication	Amsterdam, Netherlands
Publisher	Elsevier BV
Pages	299-308
Number of pages	9
Publication status	Published - 1994
Event	Proceedings of the IFIP WG10.3 Working Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT'94) - Montreal, Can Duration: 1 Jul 1994 → … http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/ifipPACT/ifipPACT1994.html#SargeantKA94http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bibtex/conf/ifipPACT/SargeantKA94.xmlhttp://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bibtex/conf/ifipPACT/SargeantKA94

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Conference	Proceedings of the IFIP WG10.3 Working Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT'94)
City	Montreal, Can
Period	1/07/94 → …
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Sargeant, J, Kirkham, C & Anderson, S 1994, Towards a computational model for UFO. in IFIP Transactions A: Computer Science and Technology|IFIP Trans A Comput Sci Technol. IFIP Transactions, Elsevier BV, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 299-308, Proceedings of the IFIP WG10.3 Working Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT'94), Montreal, Can, 1/07/94. <http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/ifipPACT/ifipPACT1994.html#SargeantKA94>

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