Title :
Parallel object-oriented programming in SYMPAL
Author :
Danieli, Irit ; Cohen, Shimon
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Tel-Aviv Univ., Israel
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;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Systems and Software Engineering, 1988. Proceedings., Third Israel Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tel-Aviv
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-0884-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICCSSE.1988.72253
