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In this paper we report on our experiences using Erlang to implement a subset of the agent-oriented programming language Jason.

The principal existing implementation of Jason is written in Java, but suffers from a number of drawbacks, i.e., has severe ...

In programming language implementations, one of the most important design decisions concerns the underlying representation of terms. In functional languages with immutable terms, the runtime system can choose to preserve sharing of subterms or destroy ...

This paper describes ErLLVM, a new backend for the HiPE compiler, the native code compiler of Erlang/OTP, that targets the LLVM compiler infrastructure. Besides presenting the overall architecture of ErLLVM and its integration in Erlang/OTP, we describe ...

Programming language implementers rely heavily on benchmarking for measuring and understanding performance of algorithms, architectural designs, and trade-offs between alternative implementations of compilers, runtime systems, and virtual machine ...

The Dynamo model, as described by Amazon in 2007, has become a popular concept in the development of distributed storage systems. The model accounts for only CRUD operations, however. This paper describes a system called Riak Pipe that enables the use ...

Proper definition of suitable mechanisms to cope with network partition and to recover from node failure are among the most common problems when designing and implementing a fault-tolerant distributed system. The concern is even more serious when the ...

Erlang offers a programmer 3-4 orders of magnitude more processes than conventional languages. This difference in approach to concurrency leads to architectures and attitudes embracing processes as key elements of a software system, providing fault ...

The actor model is a high-level programming abstraction that attempts to ease the development of parallel applications, among others, by shielding the developer from the underlying platform. In this model the execution relies on a runtime environment (...

This paper presents _ooErlang, an object oriented extension to the Erlang programming language. Its simple syntax, closer to other widely used object-oriented languages such as Java, makes easier its adoption.

This paper is a case study of implementing Tiny Mersenne Twister (TinyMT) pseudo random number generator (PRNG) for Erlang. TinyMT has a longer generation period (2¹²⁷-1) than the stock implementation of Erlang/OTP random module. TinyMT can generate ...

Avoiding concurrency errors remains one of the main challenges in day-to-day Erlang development. Errors can arise both from unexpected process and message interleaving, as well as concurrent clients or users interacting with the system in an ...