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On Efficient Load Balancing for Irregular Applications

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Concurrent Objects and Beyond

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This short essay overviews a history and a future perspective of dynamic load balancing for irregular applications. Since I write this essay for the Festschrift, I discuss ideas of load balancing from the point of view of concurrent objects as much as possible.

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  1. Department of Artificial Intelligence, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 680-4 Kawazu Iizuka, Fukuoka, Japan, 820-8502

    Masahiro Yasugi

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  2. Department of Communications and Computer Engineering, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Atsushi Igarashi

  3. Department of Computer Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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    Etsuya Shibayama

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    Kenjiro Taura

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Yasugi, M. (2014). On Efficient Load Balancing for Irregular Applications. In: Agha, G., et al. Concurrent Objects and Beyond. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8665. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44471-9_11

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