| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/M55633/01 |
| Title: |
FUNCTIONAL DISTRIBUTED INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Trinder, Professor P |
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Computing & Electrical Engineering |
| Organisation: |
Heriot-Watt University |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
26 August 1999 |
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25 January 2001 |
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51,831
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Improvements in network technology, and the advent of the internet in particular, have stimulated renewed interest in distributed programming languages. Compared to conventional distributed languages, functional languages offer a more dynamic programming model: tasks and data may be placed dynamically, and processes and channels generated dynamically. At the cost of additional messages, lazy functional languages support the dynamic and lazy transfer of data between processes.We propose to design and implement a lazy functional language with a dynamic distributed programming model, GdH. The construction of such a language is only feasible because it is the fusion of existing concurrent and parallel language design and implementations. We will evaluate the suitability of the language for real small-scale distributed applications based on an implementation of a distributed interactive simulation.
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