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A parallel graph reduction machine being designed and built at Imperial College. ALICE is aimed at the efficient execution of declarative languages such as PROLOG <196>. and pure LISP <34> although it will support other more conventional languages. The ALICE architecture consists of many processing ‘agents’ connected to many memory segments through a multi-stage delta network and circulating rings connecting the agents to distribute work and free storage locations.
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Darlington, J. and Reeve, M. J. ALICE: a multi-processor reduction machine for the efficient evaluation of applicative languages. In Proc. MIT/ACM Conference on Functional Languages and Computer Architecture. pages 65–75. 1981.
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Bundy, A., Wallen, L. (1984). Alice. In: Bundy, A., Wallen, L. (eds) Catalogue of Artificial Intelligence Tools. Symbolic Computation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-96868-6_6
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