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Scheduling Of Dataflow Models Within The Reconfigurable Video Coding Framework

Marco Mattavelli, Christophe Lucarz, Jani Boutellier

The upcoming Reconfigurable Video Coding (RVC) standard from MPEG (ISO/IEC SC29WG11) defines a library of coding tools to specify existing or new compressed video formats and decoders. The coding tool library has been written in a dataflow/actor-oriented l ...

2008

Actors that Unify Threads and Events

Martin Odersky, Philipp Haller

In practice, concurrent programming systems based on message passing are often instantiations of the actor model. A popular implementation of this form of concurrency is the Erlang programming language. Erlang supports massively concurrent systems such as ...

2007

Bounded Asynchrony: A Biologically Inspired Notion of Concurrency

Maria-Emanuela-Canini Mateescu

We introduce {\em bounded asynchrony}, a notion of `concurrency tailored to the modeling of biological cell-cell interactions. Bounded asynchrony is the result of a scheduler that bounds the number of steps that one process get ahead of other processes; th ...

2007

Actors that Unify Threads and Events

Martin Odersky, Philipp Haller

There is an impedance mismatch between message-passing concurrency and virtual machines, such as the JVM. VMs usually map their threads to heavyweight OS processes. Without a lightweight process abstraction, users are often forced to write parts of concurr ...

Springer2007

Implementing Joins using Extensible Pattern Matching

Philipp Haller

Join patterns are an attractive declarative way to synchronize both threads and asynchronous distributed computations. We explore joins in the context of extensible pattern matching that recently appeared in languages such as F# and Scala. Our implementati ...

2007

Continuations in the Java Virtual Machine

Iulian Dragos, Antonio Cunei

Continuations have received considerable attention lately as a possible solution to web application development. Other uses proposed in the past, such as cooperative threading, coroutines or writing iterators, made them an attractive feature of dynamically ...

Technische Universität Berlin2007

The Time-Complexity of Local Decision in Distributed Agreement

Rachid Guerraoui, Bastian Pochon, Partha Dutta

Agreement is at the heart of distributed computing. In its simple form, it requires a set of processes to decide on a common value out of the values they propose. The time-complexity of distributed agreement problems is generally measured in terms of the n ...

2007

Event-Based Programming without Inversion of Control

Martin Odersky, Philipp Haller

The actor computation model is especially suited for concurrent and distributed computations. Actors are basically concurrent processes which communicate through asynchronous message passing. When combined with pattern matching for messages, actor-based pr ...

2006

A General Characterization of Indulgence (Invited Paper)

Rachid Guerraoui

An indulgent algorithm is a distributed algorithm that, besides tolerating process failures, also tolerates arbitrarily long periods of instability, with an unbounded number of timing and scheduling failures. In particular, no process can take any irrevoca ...

2006

Language Support for Fast and Reliable Message Based Communication in Singularity OS

James Richard Larus

Message-based communication offers potential benefits of providing stronger specification and cleaner separation between components. Compared with shared-memory interactions, message passing has the potential disadvantages of being more expensive (no direc ...

2006