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Books
Algorithm Design: Parallel and Sequential
An Introduction to Parallelism using C++
Book Chapters
Incoop: MapReduce for Incremental Computations. (Draft)
Advances in data processing techniques in the era of Big Data. CRC Press.
Pramod Bhatotia, Alexander Wieder, Umut A. Acar, Rodrigo Rodrigues.
(Invited chapter.)
Self-Adjusting Computation in Delta ML.
Notes for Advanced Functional Programming Summer School (AFP) Lectures. 2008.
Umut A. Acar and Ruy Ley-Wild.
Journals
Oracle-Guided Scheduling for Controlling Granularity in Implicitly Parallel Languages.
Journal of Functional Programming Special Issue on Parallel Computing (JFP). 2016.
Umut A. Acar, Arthur Chargueraud, and Mike Rainey.
(Invited paper.)
Implicit Self-Adjusting Computation for Purely Functional Programs.
Journal of Functional Programming (JFP). 2014.
Yan Chen, Joshua Dunfield, Matthew Hammer, Umut A. Acar.
A core calculus of provenance.
Journal of Computer Security (JCS). 2013.
Special Issue for the First Conference on Principles of Security and Trust.
Umut A. Acar, Amal Ahmed, James Cheney, and Roly Perera.
(Invited paper.)
A consistent semantics of self-adjusting computation
Journal of Functional Programming. 2013.
The complete Twelf proof: as a text file, and as a tar ball.
Umut A. Acar, Matthias Blume, Jake Donham.
Dynamic well-spaced point sets.
Journal of Computational Geometry, Theory and Applications. 2013.
Umut A Acar, Andy Cotter, Benoit Hudson, Duru Turkoglu.
Adaptive Exact Inference in Graphical Models.
Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR) 2011.
Ozgur Sumer, Umut A. Acar, Alexander Ihler, and Ramgopal Mettu.
Provenance as Dependency Analysis.
Mathematical Structures in Computer Science (MSCS), 21(06).
Special Issue on Programming Language Interference and Dependence. 2011.
James Cheney, Amal Ahmed, and Umut A. Acar.
An Experimental Analysis of Self-Adjusting Computation.
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS). 2009.
Umut A. Acar, Guy E. Blelloch, Matthias Blume, Robert Harper, and Kanat Tangwongsan.
Adaptive Functional Programming.
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS). 2006.
Umut A. Acar, Guy E. Blelloch, and Robert Harper.
The Data Locality of Work Stealing.
Theory of Computing Systems 35(3) (TOCS). 2002.
Umut A. Acar, Guy E. Blelloch, and Robert D. Blumofe.
(Invited paper.)
Conferences
Responsive Parallel Computation: Bridging Competitive and Cooperative Threading.
ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI). 2017.
Stefan K. Muller, Umut A. Acar, Robert Harper.
ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPOPP). 2017.
Full version. Carnegie Mellon University. Technical Report CMU-CS-16-133.
Umut A. Acar, Naama Ben-David, Mike Rainey.
Brief Announcement: Parallel Dynamic Tree Contraction via Self-Adjusting Computation.
ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA). 2016.
Umut A. Acar, Vitaly Aksenov, and Sam Westrick.
ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA). 2016.
Stefan K. Muller and Umut A. Acar.
The full version can be found here.
Dag-Calculus: A Calculus for Parallel Computation
ACM International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP). 2016.
Umut A. Acar, Arthur Chargueraud, Mike Rainey, Filip Sieczkowski.
Hierarchical Memory Management for Parallel Programs.
ACM International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP). 2016.
Ram Raghunathan, Stefan K. Muller, Umut A. Acar, and Guy Blelloch.
Automatically Splitting a Two-Stage Lambda Calculus.
European Symposium on Programming (ESOP). 2016.
Nicolas Feltman, Kayvon Fatahalian, Umut A. Acar, and Carlo Angiuli.
A Work-Efficient Algorithm for Parallel Unordered Depth-First Search.
ACM/IEEE Conference on High Performance Computing (SC). 2015.
Umut A. Acar, Arthur Chargueraud, Mike Rainey.
The full version can be found here.
Bridging Theory and Practice in Interaction.
Summit on Advances in Programming Languages (SNAPL). 2015.
Stefan Muller and Umut A. Acar.
Coupling Memory and Computation for Locality Management.
Summit on Advances in Programming Languages (SNAPL). 2015.
Umut A. Acar, Guy Blelloch, Matthew Fluet, Stefan Muller, Ram Raghunathan.
iThreads: A Threading Library for Parallel Incremental Computation.
International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating System (ASPLOS). 2015.
Pramod Bhatotia, Pedro Fonseca, Umut A. Acar, Bjoern B. Brandenburg, Rodrigo Rodrigues.
Refinement Types for Incremental Computation Complexity.
European Symposium on Programming (ESOP). 2015.
Ezgi Cicek, Deepak Garg, Umut A. Acar.
Functional Programming for Dynamic and Large Data with Self-Adjusting Computation.
International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP). 2014.
Yan Chen, Umut A. Acar, and Kanat Tangwongsan.
Theory and Practice of Chunked Sequences.
European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA). 2014.
Umut A. Acar, Arthur Chargueraud, Mike Rainey.
Database Queries that Explain their Work.
International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming (PPDP). 2014.
James Cheney, Amal Ahmed, Umut A. Acar. 2014.
Slider: Incremental Sliding Window Analytics.
ACM/IFIP/Usenix Middleware. 2014.
Pramod Bhatotia, Umut A. Acar, Flavio P. Junqueira, Rodrigo Rodrigues.
Scheduling Parallel Programs by Work Stealing with Private Deques
ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPOPP). 2013.
Umut A. Acar, Arthur Chargueraud, and Mike Rainey.
Functional Programs that Explain their Work
International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP) 2012.
Full version (Technical Report).
Roly Perera, Umut A. Acar, James Cheney, Paul Blain Levy.
Type Directed Automatic Incrementalization.
Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI) 2012.
Yan Chen, Joshua Dunfield, Umut A. Acar.
Non-Monotonic Self-Adjusting Computation.
European Symposium on Programming (ESOP) 2012.
Ruy Ley-Wild, Umut A. Acar, Guy E. Blelloch.
A Core Calculus of Provenance.
Conference on Principles of Security and Trust (POST) 2012.
Umut A. Acar, Amal Ahmed, James Cheney, Roly Perera.
Incoop: MapReduce for Incremental Computations.
ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC). 2011.
Pramod Bhatotia, Alexander Wieder, Rodrigo Rodrigues, Umut A. Acar, Rafael Pasquini.
(Invited chapter in CRC Press' Big-Data Book.)
Oracle Scheduling: Controlling Granularity in Implicitly Parallel Languages.
ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA). 2011.
Umut A. Acar, Arthur Chargueraud, Mike Rainey.
Self-Adjusting Stack Machines.
ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA). 2011.
Matthew Hammer, Georg Neis, Yan Chen, Umut A. Acar.
Implicit Self-Adjusting Computation for Purely Functional Programs.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP). 2011.
Yan Chen, Joshua Dunfield, Matthew Hammer, Umut A. Acar.
Fast Parallel and Adaptive Updates for Dual-Decomposition Solvers.
Proceedings of the Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). 2011.
Ozgur Sumer, Umut A. Acar, Alexander Ihler, Ramgopal Mettu.
Parallelism in Dynamic Well-Spaced Point Sets.
ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA). 2011.
Umut A. Acar, Andy Cotter, Benoit Hudson, Duru Turkoglu.
Kinetic Mesh Refinement in 2D.
ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry (SCG). 2011.
Umut A. Acar, Benoit Hudson, Duru Turkoglu.
Traceable Data Types for Self-Adjusting Computation.
ACM-SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI). 2010.
Umut A. Acar, Guy E. Blelloch, Ruy Ley-Wild, Kanat Tangwongsan, and Duru Turkoglu.
Dynamic Well-Spaced Point Sets.
ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry (SCG). 2010.
Umut A. Acar, Andrew Cotter, Benoit Hudson, and Duru Turkoglu.
CEAL: A C-Based Language for Self-Adjusting Computation.
ACM-SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI). 2009.
Full version. Toyota Technological Institute Technical Report.
Matthew Hammer, Umut A. Acar, and Yan Chen.
A Cost Semantics for Self-Adjusting Computation.
ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL). 2009.
Full version. Carnegie Mellon University Technical Report.
Ruy Ley-Wild, Umut A. Acar, and Matthew Fluet.
Imperative Self-Adjusting Computation.
ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL). 2008.
Full version. University of Chicago Technical Report 2007-18.
Compiling Self-Adjusting Programs with Continuations.
Umut A. Acar, Amal Ahmed, and Matthias Blume.
International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP). 2008.
Ruy Ley-Wild, Matthew Fluet, and Umut A. Acar.
Memory Management for Self-Adjusting Computation.
International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM). 2008.
Matthew Hammer and Umut A. Acar.
Exception Handlers as Extensible Cases.
Proceedings of the Sixth ASIAN Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS). 2008.
Matthias Blume, Umut A. Acar, and Wonseok Chae.
Robust Kinetic Convex Hulls in 3D.
European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA). 2008.
Umut A. Acar, Guy E. Blelloch, Kanat Tangwongsan, and Duru Turkoglu.
Adaptive Inference on General Graphical Models.
Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI). 2008.
Umut A. Acar, Alexander T. Ihler, Ramgopal Mettu, Ozgur Sumer.
A Consistent Semantics of Self-Adjusting Computation.
European Symposium on Programming (ESOP). 2007.
Full version. Carnegie Mellon University. Technical Report CMU-CS-06-168.
Umut A. Acar, Matthias Blume, and Jacob Donham.
Provenance as Dependency Analysis.
International Symposium on Database Programming Languages (DBPL). 2007.
James Cheney, Amal Ahmed, and Umut A. Acar.
Adaptive Bayesian Inference.
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS). 2007.
Umut A. Acar, Alexander T. Ihler, Ramgopal Mettu, Ozgur Sumer.
Kinetic 3D Convex Hulls via Self-Adjusting Computation (An Illustration).
ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry (SCG). 2007.
Umut A. Acar, Guy E. Blelloch, and Kanat Tangwongsan.
SVR: Practical Enginnering of a Fast 3D Meshing Algorithm.
International Meshing Roundtable (IMR).
Umut A. Acar, Benoit Hudson, Gary L. Miller, and Todd Phillips.
A Novel SoC Design Methodology Combining Adaptive Software and Reconfigurable Hardware.
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD). 2007.
Marco D. Santambrogio, Vincenzo Rana, Seda Ogrenci Memik, Umut A. Acar, and Donatella Sciuto.
An Experimental Analysis of Self-Adjusting Computation.
ACM-SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI). 2006.
Umut A. Acar, Guy E. Blelloch, Matthias Blume, and Kanat Tangwongsan.
Extensible Programming with First-Class Cases.
International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP). 2006.
Matthias Blume, Umut A. Acar, and Wonseok Chae.
Kinetic Algorithms via Self-Adjusting Computation.
European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA). 2006.
Umut A. Acar, Guy E. Blelloch, and Kanat Tangwongsan.
Dynamizing Static Algorithms with Applications to Dynamic Trees and History Independence.
ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA). 2004.
Umut A. Acar, Guy E. Blelloch, Robert Harper, Maverick Woo, and Jorge Vittes.
Selective Memoization.
ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL). 2003.
Full version. Carnegie Mellon University. Technical Report CMU-CS-04-155.
Umut A. Acar, Guy E. Blelloch, and Robert Harper.
Adaptive Functional Programming.
ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL). 2002.
Umut A. Acar, Guy E. Blelloch, and Robert Harper.
The Data Locality of Work Stealing.
ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA). 2000.
Umut A. Acar, Guy E. Blelloch, and Robert D. Blumofe.
Workshops
Towards a Theory of Self-Explaining Computation.
Peter Buneman Festschrift.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS Volume 8000. 2013.
James Cheney, Umut A. Acar, and Roly Perera.
Language Support for Efficient Dynamic Computation.
Off the Beaten Track Workshop.
Umut A. Acar, Ezgi Cicek, Deepak Garg.
Streaming Big Data with Self-Adjusting Computation.
Workshop on Data Driven Functional Programming.
Umut A. Acar and Yan Chen.
Implementing implicit self-adjusting computation.
ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on ML. 2011.
Yan Chen, Joshua Dunfield, Matthew A. Hammer, Umut A. Acar.
Large-scale Incremental Data Processing with Change Propagation.
USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud). 2011.
Pramod Bhatotia, Alexander Wieder, Istemi Ekin Akkus, Rodrigo Rodrigues, Umut A. Acar.
A graph model of data and workflow provenance.
USENIX/ACM Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (TAPP). 2010.
Umut Acar, Peter Buneman, James Cheney, Jan Van den Buscsche, Natalia Kwasnikowska, Stijn Vansummeren.
Kinetic Mesh Refinement in 2D.
Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry, 2010.
Umut A. Acar, Benoit Hudson, and Duru Turkoglu.
Self-Adjusting Computation (An Overview).
Plenary Talk at ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation (PEPM). 2009.
Umut A. Acar.
Adaptive Updates for MAP Configurations with Applications to Bioinformatics.
IEEE/SP 15th Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SSP). 2009.
Umut A. Acar, Alexander T. Ihler, Ramgopal Mettu, Ozgur Sumer.
Speculative N-Way Barriers.
Workshop on Declarative Aspects of Multicore Programming (DAMP). 2009.
Lukasz Ziarek, Suresh Jagannathan, Matthew Fluet, and Umut A. Acar.
A Dynamic Algorithm for Well-Spaced Point Sets.
Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry. 2009.
Umut A. Acar, Benoit Hudson, and Duru Turkoglu.
A Proposal for Parallel Self-Adjusting Computation.
Workshop on Declarative Aspects of Multicore Programming (DAMP). 2007.
Matthew Hammer, Umut A. Acar, Mohan Rajagopalan, and Anwar Ghuloum.
Optimal-Time Dynamic Mesh Refinement: Preliminary Results.
Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry. 2006.
Umut A. Acar and Benoit Hudson.
A Library for Self-Adjusting Computation.
ACM-SIGPLAN Workshop on ML. 2005.
Also in Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS). 148 (2).
Umut A. Acar, Guy E. Blelloch, Matthias Blume, Robert Harper, and Kanat Tangwongsan.
An Experimental Analysis of Change Propagation in Dynamic Trees.
ACM-SIAM Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX). 2005.
Umut A. Acar, Guy E. Blelloch, Jorge Vittes.
Theses
Incremental Parallel and Distributed Systems,
Ph.D. Thesis. Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, 2015.
Pramod Bhatotia.
Self-Adjusting Stack Machines
Ph.D. Thesis. University of Chicago. 2012.
Matthew Hammer.
Adaptive Inference for Graphical Models.
Ph.D. Thesis. University of Chicago. 2012.
Ozgur Sumer.
Stable Algorithms and Kinetic Mesh Refinement.
Ph.D. Thesis. University of Chicago. 2012.
Duru Turkoglu.
Programmable Self-Adjusting Computation
Ph.D. Thesis. Carnegie Mellon University. 2010.
Ruy Ley-Wild.
Self-Adjusting Computation.
PhD. Thesis. Carnegie Mellon University. 2005.
Umut A. Acar.
Manuscripts
Provenance traces.
arXiv:0812.0564v1. 2008.
James Cheney, Umut Acar, Amal Ahmed.