... presented our study of the optimal planning and sequencing for parallel machining operations The combinatorial nature of sequencing and the complication of having precedence and mode constraints ... associated parallel machining schedule to minimize the total machining cycle time Because of the relatively new trend of applying parallel machines in industrial manufacturing, only a handful of papers ... operations for parallel machines [3, 22] The combinatorial nature of sequencing and the complication of having precedence constraints make the problem difficult to solve A definition of such parallel...
... the hardware, software and services aspects of Cloud Computing there are also a corresponding lack of security guidelines and consistency in the area of authentication, security and encryption ... as the core of the SaaS architecture yet as with many areas of Cloud Computing, definitions vary by who is giving them Unifying all of these definitions is the common thread of Cloud Computing ... Facebook, Twitter (Vijayan, et.al.) and others, and thousands of industry and enterprise applications as well These are the most susceptible areas to hackers as often developers, in the rush to...
... Chapter and compares the results of TS and those of GA In addition, to further improve the Chapter Introduction performance of the TS, a parallel TS (PTS) is proposed and the performance of PTS ... the suitability of Tabu Search (TS) and GA for solving this problem, a TS was proposed and the results of TS were compared with those of GA GA and TS were both found to be capable of finding the ... MODELLING AND SCHEDULING OF HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING SYSTEMS LIU GUOQUAN (M Eng., Tsinghua University) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS...
... L Lastovetsky Tools and Environments for Paralleland Distributed Computing / Salim Hariri and Manish Parashar (Editors) TOOLS AND ENVIRONMENTS FOR PARALLELAND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING Edited by ... United States of America 10 CONTENTS Preface xi Paralleland Distributed Computing S Hariri and M Parashar 1.1 1.2 Introduction: Basic Concepts Promises and Challenges ofParalleland Distributed ... development, execution, management, and experimentation with paralleland distributed computing environments The design, development, and utilization ofparalleland distributed computing environments that...
... of cloud computing In front of these rapid evolution, it is crucial to understand the economic impact of the introduction of this general purpose technology For sure, the diffusion of cloud computing ... of users, b) allowing for centralization of Economic Impact of Cloud Computing on Business Creation, Employment and Output 185 Evaluating the Economic Impact of Cloud Computing: Methodology and ... terms of new workers (with 240 thousand new workers in the short run under fast adoption), followed by Germany (160 thousand), France (100 thousand), Poland (94 thousand), Italy (76 thousand) and...
... words, lemmas and part -of- speech tags, e.g took, take, VBD and began, begin, VBD • All words, lemmas and part -of- speech tags in the verb phrases of each event, e.g took, take, VBD and began, to, ... notions of cause used in prior work (Girju, 2003; Girju et al., 2007) Annotators selected the best paraphrase ofand from the following options: and as a result, and as a consequence, and enabled ... temporal and causal relations, and accounted for 10% of all adjacent verbal events: events conjoined by the word and Our temporal annotation guidelines were based on the guidelines for TimeBank and...
... Parallel computing principles and practice Parallelcomputing principles and practice T J FOUNTAIN Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London ... this book will be of use both to students of the subject ofparallelcomputingand to potential users who want to avoid the many possible pitfalls in understanding this new and complex field ... of each area, and to explore their understanding of each facet At each stage of the book, suggestions are made for further reading, by means of which interested readers may extend the depth of...
... Corrochano Handbook of eometric Computing G eometric Computing Applications in Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Neuralcomputing, and Robotics With 277 Figures, 67 in color, and 38 Tables 123 Prof ... • • • brain theory and neuroscience learning neurocomputing, fuzzy computing, and quantum computing Preface • • • • • • • • • • • VII image analysis and processing geometric computing under uncertainty ... predictions and data showing the effect of contrast on the perceived mislocalization of edges with different amounts of blur The data points are digitized from [5] and represent the mean and the standard...
... Toward Automating Parallel Programming Algorithms ParallelComputing Design Considerations 12 Parallel Algorithms andParallel Architectures 13 Relating Parallel Algorithm andParallel Architecture ... program correctness and data integrity 1.5 PARALLEL ALGORITHMS ANDPARALLEL ARCHITECTURES Parallel algorithms andparallel architectures are closely tied together We cannot think of a parallel algorithm ... node and any output node Parallelism (P), which is also known as the degree of parallelism of the algorithm Parallelism is defined as the maximum number of nodes that can be processed in parallel...
... Marllnez-Gonzdlez and J.L Sanz Analysis of Texture on Cosmic Background Maps 139 V.G Gurzadyan and S Tortes Sakharov Modulation of the Spectrum of Initial Perturbations and Its ... the range of possible zero levels, and the errors include both random and systematic components multaneous operation in several bands A suitable choice of differencing between elements of the array ... of the CMB spectrum at cnl-wavelengths require significant progress in our understanding of the Galactic enlission An improvement by a factor of in the determination of a,y,,, above 408 MHz and...
... Mechanics of Serial andParallel Manipulators New York: Wiley, 1999 J.-P Merlet, Parallel Robots London, U.K.: Kluwer, 2000 Y Fang and L W Tsai, “Structure synthesis of a class of 4-DoF and 5-DoF parallel ... R and allows the calculation of the values of R and H in sequence B Design Variables and Objective Function The architectural parameters of a 3-PUU TPM involve the sizes of base platform (a) and ... rescuer uses two hands instead of only one hand to perform the action of chest compressions In the process of performing chest compressions, the two arms of the rescuer construct a parallel mechanism...
... http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2229/11/135 Page of 18 for future genetic linkage and QTL analysis, and comparative studies with other legumes, and will help in the discovery and understanding of genes underlying agriculturally ... transcriptome and genomic resources, we analyzed 33,001 unigenes and 973.34 Mbp of genomic sequences from G max, 18,098 unigenes and 105.5 Mbp of genomic sequences from M truncatula, and 30,579 unigenes and ... and to the writing of the manuscript ZL helped with experimental verification, analysis of sequence data, and contributed to writing of the manuscript BM helped with conceiving and analysis of...
... Globalization and Health 2007, 3:5 [6], and lack of access to safe water and sanitation contributes to 1.5 million [7] An expanding body of literature describes a similarly unequal distribution of many ... organizes the provision and distribution of economic resources is informative Both for this reason and because of the preceding discussion of how global patterns of illness and death are related ... definition of globalization and describes key strategic and methodological issues, emphasizing how and why the special characteristics of globalization as a focus of research on health equity and SDH...
... L Lastovetsky Tools and Environments for Paralleland Distributed Computing / Salim Hariri and Manish Parashar (Editors) TOOLS AND ENVIRONMENTS FOR PARALLELAND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING Edited by ... United States of America 10 CONTENTS Preface xi Paralleland Distributed Computing S Hariri and M Parashar 1.1 1.2 Introduction: Basic Concepts Promises and Challenges ofParalleland Distributed ... development, execution, management, and experimentation with paralleland distributed computing environments The design, development, and utilization ofparalleland distributed computing environments that...
... objective of this book is to provide a comprehensive study of the software tools and environments that have been used to support paralleland distributed computing systems We highlight the main software ... University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ I RA Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Colorado at Denver, Denver, CO 2.1 INTRODUCTION Current paralleland distributed software tools ... the selection of a particular software tool for an application development is nontrivial Factors Tools and Environments for Paralleland Distributed Computing, Edited by Salim Hariri and Manish...
... (e.g., BPNN), ACS shows outstanding performance We believe that most of the improvements of ACS in this case are due to the overlapping of communications and computations and the tree-based broadcasting ... Park, and S Hariri, Design and evaluation of an adaptive communication system for high performance distributed computing applications, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Cluster Computing Technologies, ... application where the sizes of the broadcasting messages are small and the communications take place randomly, the performance of resource-aware multicasting ACS is comparable to that of non-resource-aware...
... initially x = y = and both P1 and P2 have cached copies of x and y If coherence is not maintained, P1 does not get the changed value of y and P2 does not get the changed value of x 60 DISTRIBUTED ... Blum, and W Tichy, The ParaStation Project: using workstations as building blocks for parallel computing, Proceedings of the International Conference 56 MESSAGE-PASSING TOOLS on Paralleland Distributed ... PARASHAR and S CHANDRA Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 3.1 INTRODUCTION Distributed shared memory (DSM) is a software abstraction of shared...
... semiconductor and networking infrastructures have blurred the differentiation between paralleland distributed computing systems and made distributed computing a workable alternative to high-performance parallel ... distributed software systems Despite a large number of such systems, one fact is clear that the software for distributed computing can be written efficiently using the principles of distributed-object computing ... with code segments, followed by a comparison and experimental evalTools and Environments for Paralleland Distributed Computing, Edited by Salim Hariri and Manish Parashar ISBN 0-471-33288-7 Copyright...