Parallel object-oriented programming in SYMPAL

Author

Danieli, Irit ; Cohen, Shimon

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Tel-Aviv Univ., Israel

fYear

1988

fDate

6-7 Jun 1988

Firstpage

133

Lastpage

142

Abstract

An object-oriented programming model in a parallel system is presented. It is designed for modelling, describing and solving a wide variety of AI problems. AI applications, in particular, deal with knowledge-bases and a lot of problems have parallel solutions. Therefore, while parallel computers are becoming widespread, there is a need for a rich language that enables the exploitation of parallelism and the achievement of faster solutions. SYMPAL, a parallel symbolic environment and language, that evolved from Common-Lisp, is described, with an emphasis on the POOP (parallel object-oriented programming) style

Keywords

LISP; knowledge based systems; object-oriented programming; parallel languages; parallel programming; programming environments; AI problems; Common-Lisp; POOP; SYMPAL; knowledge-bases; object-oriented programming model; parallel computers; parallel object-oriented programming; parallel solutions; parallel symbolic environment; parallelism; symbolic parallel language; Application software; Artificial intelligence; Concurrent computing; Delay; Load management; Object oriented modeling; Object oriented programming; Parallel processing; Printers; Timing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Systems and Software Engineering, 1988. Proceedings., Third Israel Conference on

Conference_Location

Tel-Aviv

Print_ISBN

0-8186-0884-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCSSE.1988.72253

Filename

72253