Farms, pipes, streams and reforestation : reasoning about structured parallel processes using types and hylomorphisms
- Submitting institution
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University of St Andrews
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 252050253
- Type
- E - Conference contribution
- DOI
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10.1145/2951913.2951920
- Title of conference / published proceedings
- Proceedings of the 21st ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2016)
- First page
- 4
- Volume
- 51
- Issue
- 9
- ISSN
- 0362-1340
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
- Research group(s)
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B - Systems
- Citation count
- 9
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Parallel programmers had explored high-level structured parallel abstractions, but no static or type-based characterisation of this idea was known. Using mathematically sophisticated concepts from category theory (hylomorphisms), this paper introduced the first type-theoretic account of structured parallelism, providing an unexpected but deep link between theoretically well understood hylomorphisms and the practically important problem of finding a functionally equivalent optimal parallel configuration.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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