An object-oriented approach to software development for autonomous decentralized systems

Abstract

Despite the rapid advances i n development of parallel processing systems in recent years, the progress i n software development t o effectively utilize the parallel processing systems has been relatively slow. I n this paper, a n object-oriented approach t o software development for parallel processing systems i s presented. This approach is based on a computation model which incorporates the functional paradigm in the objectoriented paradigm and allows exploitation of massive parallelism without sacrificing the effectiveness of the object-oriented paradigm. T h e issues related t o the development processes are discussed.