Execution pattern

(Software) execution patterns or execution models are software patterns that address issues related to lower-level support of application execution, including strategies for executing streams of tasks and for the definition of building blocks to support task synchronization. As such, execution pattern is an umbrella term for:

• Workflow patterns and / or
• Concurrency patterns

To a certain extent, also distributed design patterns belong to this class.

See also

• Parallel computing
• Parallel algorithm
• Parallel programming model
• Interaction design pattern
• Parallel processing