Publications

2024

Provably Efficient Coscheduling of Computation and Memory through Disentanglement
PhD Thesis, 2024.
Jatin Arora

Automatic Parallelism Management.
ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL). 2024.

Sam Westrick, Matthew Fluet, Mike Rainey, Umut A. Acar
(Distinguished paper award.)

Disentangleement with Futures, State, and Interaction.
ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL). 2024.
Jatin Arora, Stefan K. Muller, Umut  A. Acar

Compiling Loop-Based Nested Paralelism for Irregular Workloads
International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating System (ASPLOS). 2024.
Y. Su, M. Rainey, N. Wanninger, N Dhiantravan, J. Liang, U. Acar, P. Dinda, S. Campanoni

Atomique: A Quantum Compiler for Reconfigurable Neutral Atom Arrays.
The International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) 2024
H Wang, P Liu, B Tan, Y Liu, J Gu, DZ Pan, J Cong, U. A. Acar, S Han.

Atlas: Hierarchical Partitioning  for Quantum Circuit Simulation on GPUs.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing (SC). 2024.
Mingkuan Xu, Shiyi Cao, Xupeng Miao, Umut A. Acar, and Zhihao Jia.

GraFeyn: Efficient Parallel Sparse Simulation of Quantum Circuits.

IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering, 

S. Westrick, P. Liu, B. Kang, C. McDonald, M. Rainey, M. Xu, J. Arora, Y. Ding, U. A. Acar
(Best paper Award)



2023


Efficient Parallel Functional Programming with Effects.

ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI). 2023.

Sam Westrick, Jatin Arora, Umut A. Acar.

Responsive Parallelism with Synchronization.
ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI). 2023.
Stefan Muller, Kyle Singer, Devyn T. Keeney, Andrew Neth, Kunal Agrawal, I-Ting Angelina Lee,  Umut A. Acar.

WARDen: Specializing Cache Coherence for High-Level.
ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization CGO 2023.
M. Wilkins, S. Westrick, V. Kandiah, A. Bernat, B. Suchy, E. A. Deiana, S. Campanoni, U. A. Acar, P. A. Dinda, N. Hardavellas.

2022

Efficient and Scalable Parallel Functional Programming through Disentanglement
PhD Thesis.   2022.
Sam Westrick.
(ACM SIGPLAN John Reynold Dissertation Award)

Near-Zero Cost Entanglement Detection.

ACM International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP). 2022.

Sam Westrick, Jatin Arora, Umut A. Acar

(Distinguished Paper Award.)


Quartz: Superoptimization for Quantum Circuits
ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI). 2022.
M. Xu, Z. Li, O. Padon, S. Lin, J. Pointing, A. Hirth, H. Ma, J. Palsberg, A. Aiken, U. Acar, Z. Jia 


Provably Space-Efficient Parallel Functional Programming
Invited ACM Blog  2022.
Sam Westrick, Jatin Arora, Umut Acar.


DePa: Simple, Provably Efficient, and Practical Order Maintenance for Task Parallelism
Manuscript.  arXiv: 2204.14168
Sam Westrick, Larry Wang, Umut A. Acar


2021


Provably Space-Efficient Parallel Functional Programming.

ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL). 2021.

Jatin Arora, Sam Westrick, Umut A. Acar.

(Distinguished Paper Award.)


Task Parallel Assembly Language for Uncompromising Parallelism.

ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI). 2021.

Mike Rainey, Ryan Newton, Kyle Hale, Nikos Hardavellas, Simone Campanoni, Peter Dinda, Umut A. Acar.


Efficient Parallel Self-Adjusting Computation.

ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA). 2021.

Daniel Anderson, Guy Blelloch, Anubhav Baweja, Umut A. Acar


2020


Responsive Parallelism with Futures and State

ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI). 2020.

Stefan Muller, Kyle Singer, Noah Goldstein, Umut A. Acar, Kunal Agrawal, I-Ting Angelina Lee


Disentanglement in Nested-Parallel Programs.  

ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL). 2020.

Sam Westrick, Rohan Yadav, Matthew Fluet, Umut A. Acar.


Priority Scheduling for Interactive Applications.

ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA). 2020.

Kyle Singer, Noah Goldstein, Stefan Muller, Kunal Agrawal, I-Ting Lee, Umut A. Acar.


Program equivalence for assisted grading of functional programs.

ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA).  2020.

Joshua Clune, Vijay Ramamurthy, Ruben Martins, Umut A. Acar


Parallel Batch-Dynamic Trees via Change Propagation. 

European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA). 2020.

Umut A. Acar, Daniel Anderson, Guy E. Blelloch, Laxman Dhulipala, Sam Westrick.


Analyzing Student Strategies In Blended Courses Using Clickstream Data

Educational Data Mining (EDM). 2020

Nil-Jana Akpinar, Aaditya Ramdas, Umut Acar 


2019


Provably and Practically Efficient Granularity Control.

ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPOPP). 2019.

Umut A. Acar, Vitaly Aksenov, Arthur Chargueraud, Mike Rainey.

(SIGPLAN Research Highlight)


Fairness in Responsive Parallelism.

ACM International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP). 2019.

Stefan K. Muller, Sam Westrick, Umut A. Acar


Parallel Batch-Dynamic Graph Connectivity.

ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA). 2019.

Umut A. Acar, Daniel Anderson, Guy E. Blelloch, Laxman Dhulipala.


Brief Announcement: Work Efficient Parallel Graph Isomorphism.

ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA). 2019.

Rohan Yadav, Umut A. Acar.


Disentanglement, Theory and Practice

Rohan Yadav. B.S. Thesis. 2019.


Zeus: Algorithmic Program Equivalence

Vijay Ramamurthy. B.S. Thesis. 2019

2018

Competitive Parallelism: Getting your Priorities Right.

ACM International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP). 2018.

Full paper on ArXiV.

Stefan K. Muller, Umut A. Acar, Robert Harper.


Heartbeat Scheduling: Provable Efficiency for Nested Parallelism.

ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI). 2018.

Umut A. Acar, Arthur Charguéraud, Adrien Guatto, Mike Rainey, Filip Sieczkowski.

    

Hierarchical Memory Management for Mutable State.

ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPOPP). 2018.

Full paper on ArXiV.

Adrien Guatto, Sam Westrick, Ram Raghunathan, Umut A. Acar, Matthew Fluet.


Poster: Performance Challenges  in Modular Parallel Programs.

ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPOPP). 2018

Umut A. Acar, Vitaly Aksenov, Arthur Chargueraud, Mike Rainey.


Responsive Parallel Computation.

Stefan Muller. Ph.D. Thesis. 2018.


2017


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.


Contention in Structured Concurrency: Provably Efficient Dynamic Non-Zero Indicators for Nested Parallelism.

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). 2017.

Umut A. Acar, Vitaly Aksenov, and Sam Westrick.


Parallel Work Inflation, Memory Effects, and their Empirical Analysis.

ArXiv Manuscript 1709.03767. 2017.

Umut A. Acar, Arthur Chargueraud, and Mike Rainey.


2016


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.)


Latency-Hiding Work Stealing.

ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA). 2016.

Stefan K. Muller and Umut A. Acar.


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.


2015


Incremental Parallel and Distributed Systems

Ph.D. Thesis, 2015.

Pramod Bhatotia


Implicit Self-Adjusting Computation for Purely Functional Programs

Ph.D. Thesis, 2015.

Yan Chen


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. 

(Full paper)


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.


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.


Practical and Safe Abstractions for Interactive Computation via Linearity.

Technical Report. CMU-CS-15-130.

Stefan K. Muller, William A. Duff, Umut A. Acar.


Practical Abstractions for Concurrent Interactive Programming.

Technical Report. CMU-CS-15-131.

Stefan K. Muller, William A. Duff, Umut A. Acar.


2014


Incoop: MapReduce for Incremental Computations.

Advances in data processing techniques in the era of Big Data. CRC Press.

Pramod Bhatotia, Alexander Wieder, Umut A. Acar, Rodrigo Rodrigues.

(Invited chapter.)  


Implicit Self-Adjusting Computation for Purely Functional Programs.

Journal of Functional Programming (JFP).  2014.

Yan Chen, Joshua Dunfield, Matthew Hammer, 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.


2013


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 (JFP).  2013.

The complete Twelf proof: as a text file, and as a tar ball. 

Umut A. Acar, Matthias Blume, Jake Donham. 


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.


Towards a Theory of Self-Explaining Computation.

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. 2013.

Umut A. Acar, Ezgi Cicek, Deepak Garg.


Streaming Big Data with Self-Adjusting Computation.  

Workshop on Data Driven Functional Programming. 2013.

Umut A. Acar and Yan Chen.


Dynamic well-spaced point sets. 

Journal of Computational Geometry, Theory and Applications. 2013.

Umut A Acar,  Andy Cotter, Benoit Hudson, Duru Turkoglu.


2012


Type Directed Automatic Incrementalization. 

Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI) 2012.

Yan Chen, Joshua Dunfield, Umut A. Acar.


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.


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. 


Primitives for Creating and Scheduling Parallel Computations. 

ACM Workshop on Deterministic Aspects of Multicore Programming (DAMP).  2012.

Umut A. Acar, Arthur Chargueraud, Mike Rainey. 


Stable Algorithms and Kinetic Mesh Refinement.

Ph.D. Thesis.  University of Chicago. 2012.

Duru Turkoglu.


Adaptive Inference for Graphical Models.

Ph.D. Thesis.  University of Chicago. 2012.

Ozgur Sumer.


2011


Adaptive Exact Inference in Graphical Models. 

Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR).  2011.

Ozgur Sumer, Umut A. Acar, Alexander Ihler, and Ramgopal Mettu. 


Incoop: MapReduce for Incremental Computations. 

ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC). 2011.

Pramod Bhatotia, Alexander Wieder, Rodrigo Rodrigues, Umut A. Acar,  Rafael Pasquini.

(Also appears as an invited chapter in CRC Press' Big-Data Book.)


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.


Implicit Self-Adjusting Computation for Purely Functional Programs.

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.

Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

Ozgur Sumer, Umut A. Acar, Alexander Ihler, Ramgopal Mettu.


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.


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.


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.


Implementing implicit self-adjusting computation.

ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on ML. 2011.

Yan Chen, Joshua Dunfield, Matthew A. Hammer, Umut A. Acar.


2010


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.


A graph model of data and workflow provenance.

USENIX/ACM Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance. 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.


Programmable Self-Adjusting Computation

Ph.D. Thesis. Carnegie Mellon University Technical Report.

CMU-CS-10-146. 2010.

Ruy Ley-Wild.


2009


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.


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.


Speculative N-Way Barriers.

Workshop on Declarative Aspects of Multicore Programming (DAMP). 2009.

Lukasz Ziarek, Suresh Jagannathan, Matthew Fluet, and Umut A. Acar.


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.


A Dynamic Algorithm for Well-Spaced Point Sets.

Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry. 2009.

Umut A. Acar, Benoit Hudson, and Duru Turkoglu.


2008


Imperative Self-Adjusting Computation.

ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL). 2008.

Full version. University of Chicago Technical Report 2007-18.

Umut A. Acar, Amal Ahmed, and Matthias Blume.


Compiling Self-Adjusting Programs with Continuations.

International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP). 2008.

Ruy Ley-Wild, Matthew Fluet, and Umut A. Acar.


Adaptive Inference on General Graphical Models.

Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI). 2008.

Umut A. Acar, Alexander T. Ihler, Ramgopal Mettu, Ozgur Sumer.


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.


Self-Adjusting Computation in Delta ML.

Notes for Advanced Functional Programming Summer School (AFP) Lectures. 2008.

Umut A. Acar and Ruy Ley-Wild.


Provenance traces.

arXiv:0812.0564v1. 2008.

James Cheney, Umut Acar, Amal Ahmed.


2007


Adaptive Bayesian Inference.

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS). 2007.

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.


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.


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.


2006


Adaptive Functional Programming.

ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS). 2006.

Umut A. Acar, Guy E. Blelloch, and Robert Harper.


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.


Optimal-Time Dynamic Mesh Refinement: Preliminary Results.

Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry. 2006.

Umut A. Acar and Benoit Hudson.


2005


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.


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.


Self-Adjusting Computation.

PhD. Thesis. 2005.

Umut A. Acar.


2004


Dynamizing Static Algorithms with Applications to Dynamic Trees and History Independence.

ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA). 2005.

Umut A. Acar, Guy E. Blelloch, Robert Harper, Maverick Woo, and Jorge Vittes.


2003


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.


2002


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.)


Adaptive Functional Programming.

ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL). 2002.

Umut A. Acar, Guy E. Blelloch, and Robert Harper.


2000


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.