The workshop brought together researchers interested in the mechanisation of reasoning with tableaux and related systems such as model elimination, connection method and sequent calculi. Invited talks were given by Bob Kowalski and Peter Schmitt.
]]>The coverage of each system contains a general overview, a detailed examination of the migration subsystem and load balancing support, if any. Migration support is sectioned into an overview, an examination of the migration mechanisms, the effects of migration on inter (task) communication, and details of any environment and associated resource transfer.
The summary provides comments on the major design issues identified within the report. It notes that solutions running over raw UNIX are the least complete, and that some level of kernel modification is generally necessary in order to provide good migration support. Micro kernel architectures are shown to be useful to the developers of a migration subsystem due to their modularity, which tends to ease the encapsulation of process state. The 'object' paradigm is similarly shown to aid both encapsulation and post migration communication.
Finally, a note is made that very few research topics seem to remain in the construction of a process migration system since the majority of design issues have now been addressed. No one system is found to provide a complete range of features, however.
]]>We have developed an inference system describing our approach and have demonstrated the paracticability of these ideas in a prototype implementation.
]]>The papers presented here fall into three categories: