Functional Skeletons Generate Process Topologies in Eden

We present a collection of skeletons that are appropriate to instantiate process systems in the functional-concurrent language Eden BLOM96]. Eden is a functional language providing facilities for the explicit deenition and instantiation of processes. Skeletons in this language are just higher order functions having process deenitions as parameters. We introduce skeletons for both transformational (i.e. deterministic) and reactive (usually non deterministic) process topologies and illustrate their use by applying them to several examples. Some comparisons to the skeletons literature are also established.