Distributed implementation of functional program evaluation
Jean H. D. Fasel, Robert Douglass, Randy Eugene Michelsen, Paul Hudak · 1985
In this paper, we explore the potential of the functional model, particularly as it pertains to architecture. In Section 2, we describe the graph-reduction operational model of computation and its relation to AI problems. In Section 3, we discuss a class of architectures that implement graph reduction and a prototype implementation in this class being developed at Los Alamos. Finally, we speculate on the applicability of graph reduction to some other classes of architecture.