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Kali Scheme is a distributed implementation of Scheme that permits
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efficient transmission of higher-order objects such as closures
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and continuations. The integration of distributed communication
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facilities within a higher-order programming language engenders a
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number of new abstractions and paradigms for distributed computing.
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Among these are user-specified load-balancing and migration policies
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for threads, incrementally-linked distributed computations, and
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parameterized client-server applications. Kali Scheme supports
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concurrency and communication using first-class procedures and
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continuations. It integrates procedures and continuations into a
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message-based distributed framework that allows any Scheme object
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(including code vectors) to be sent and received in a message. Some
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of the applications and implementation techniques we have looked
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at using Kali Scheme include:
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User-level load balancing and migration.
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Incremental distributed linking of code objects.
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Parameterized client-server applications.
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Long-lived parallel computations.
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Distributed data mining.
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Executable content in messages over wide-area networks
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(e.g. the World-Wide Web)
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