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The power of functional programming derives not just from simple expressive power, but from the ease with which software components can be reused. When these components are parallel computations, composition carries with it the need to coordinate process placement, communications and resource allocation. We call this the parallel component composition problem.
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Kelly, P., Taylor, F. (1999). Coordination Languages. In: Hammond, K., Michaelson, G. (eds) Research Directions in Parallel Functional Programming. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0841-2_14
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