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This short essay overviews a history and a future perspective of dynamic load balancing for irregular applications. Since I write this essay for the Festschrift, I discuss ideas of load balancing from the point of view of concurrent objects as much as possible.
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Yasugi, M. (2014). On Efficient Load Balancing for Irregular Applications. In: Agha, G., et al. Concurrent Objects and Beyond. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8665. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44471-9_11
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