- Kemal Oflazer. 1987. Partitioning in parallel processing of production systems. Abstract: This thesis presents research on certain issues related to parallel processing of production systems. It first presents a parallel production system interpreter that has been implemented on a four-processor multiprocessor. This parallel interpreter is based on Forgy's OPS5 interpreter and exploits production-level parallelism in production systems. Runs on the multiprocessor system indicate that it is possible to obtain speed-up of around 1.7 in the match computation for certain production systems when productions are split into three sets that are processed in parallel. However for production systems that are already relatively fast on uniprocessors, the communication overhead imposed by the implementation environment essentially offsets any gains when productions are split for parallel match. 
