Coordination of heterogeneous distributed cooperative constraint solving
ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review - Special issue on coodination languages and models
Using coordination for cooperative constraint solving
SAC '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM symposium on Applied Computing
A coordination-based chaotic iteration algorithm for constraint propagation
SAC '00 Proceedings of the 2000 ACM symposium on Applied computing - Volume 1
A Survey of Software Refactoring
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Restructuring Fortran legacy applications for parallel computing in multiprocessors
The Journal of Supercomputing
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A workable approach for modernization of existing software into parallel/distributed applications is through coarse grain restructuring. If for instance, entire subroutines of legacy code can be plugged into the new structure, the investment required for the rediscovery of the details of what they do can be spared. The resulting renovated software can then take advantage of the improved performance offered by modern parallel/distributed computing environments, without rethinking or rewriting the bulk of their existing code. We discuss one of our experiments using the new coordination language MANIFOLD to restructure an existing sequential numerical application written in Fortran 77, into a parallel/distributed application.