As parallelism on different levels becomes ubiquitous in today's computers, it seems
worthwhile to provide a review of the wealth of models for parallel computation that have …

This paper addresses a new framework for designing and implementing skeleton libraries,
in which each skeleton should not only be efficiently implemented as is usually done, but …

A Functional Abstract Notation (FAN) is proposed for the specification and design of parallel
algorithms by means of skeletons-high-level patterns with parallel semantics. The main …

The design of skeletons for expressing concurrent computations usually faces a conflict
between software engineering demands and performance issues. Whereas the former …

In many parallel applications high performance figures are reached at the expenses of
software quality. The parallel structure of an application is decided by the programmer and …

We present an integrated environment for the systematic development of parallel and
distributed programs. Our approach allows the user to construct complex applications by …

The Skeletal approach to parallel programming conjugates a high-level compositional style
and efficiency. A second advantage of Skeletal programming is portability since …

Academic and commercial experience with skeleton-based systems has demonstrated the
benefits of the approach but also the lack of methods and tools for algorithm design and …

Visual sensor networks (VSNs) perform complex scene analysis algorithms that require
significant computations and communications. Under this respect, the use of skeletons …

The Skel-BSP methodology provides an adaptive support for skeleton programs aiming to
achieve performance portability for parallel programming. The adaptivity is obtained by …