Research Summary: Logic Programming for Massively Distributed Systems

  • Authors:
  • Michael P. Ashley-Rollman

  • Affiliations:
  • Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh 15213

  • Venue:
  • ICLP '09 Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Logic Programming
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

My research focuses on finding a better way to program massively distributed systems. Programming these systems is crucial as we move into a world where they are increasingly necessary. Unforunately, existing concurrency models in modern languages are very difficult for programmers to understand and to reason about. Many programmers have an extremely hard time writing and debugging concurrent programs, let alone massively distributed ones. Race conditions, in particular, are among the most challenging bugs to find, understand, and resolve.