An Object-Oriented Approach to Software Development for Autonomous Decentralized Systems

Despite the rapid advances i n development of par-allel processing sys tems in recent years, the progress i n software development t o effectively utilize the par-allel processing sys tems has been relatively slow. I n this paper, a n object-oriented approach t o software de-velopment for parallel processing sys tems i s presented. T h i s approach i s based o n a computat ion model which incorporates the func t ional paradigm in the object-oriented paradigm and allows exploitation of massive parallelism without sacrificing the effectiveness of the object-oriented paradigm. T h e issues related t o the de-velopment processes are discussed.