Today is fully acknowledged that manufacturing is a formidable competitive weapon. The strength of such a weapon is essentially defined during the first step of the design phase called strategic design. During this ph...
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Today is fully acknowledged that manufacturing is a formidable competitive weapon. The strength of such a weapon is essentially defined during the first step of the design phase called strategic design. During this phase, in fact, the principal characteristics of the manufacturing systems are to be defined taking into account the competitive environment and the competition strategy. Classical analytical models for IMS design often neglect this aspect and, perhaps, this is one of the causes of IMS failure. The paper proposes a set of analytical models for strategic IMS design; they have been classified into four classes, each one pursuing a determined set of objectives, providing, in this way, a general reference framework for IMS designers.
A critical concern for firms pursuing international expansion strategies involves identifying countries that offer a good fit with the firm's overall ethical orientation. Unfortunately, little has been written to ...
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A critical concern for firms pursuing international expansion strategies involves identifying countries that offer a good fit with the firm's overall ethical orientation. Unfortunately, little has been written to aid firms in identifying countries that offer this type of fit. This paper presents a model that combines the concepts of strategic management, cross-cultural management, business ethics, and the management science technique of goal programming. The purpose of the model is to aid managers in identifying countries for international expansion that offer the best fit with the firm's ethical orientation. The paper also extends the existing literature on crosscultural management and business ethics by applying a computer optimization model to evaluate potential countries for international expansion in a way that has not been done before.
This paper surveys the use of mathematical programming models for controlling environmental quality. The scope includes air, water, and land quality, stemming from the first works in the 1960s. It also includes integr...
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This paper surveys the use of mathematical programming models for controlling environmental quality. The scope includes air, water, and land quality, stemming from the first works in the 1960s. It also includes integrated models, generally that are economic equilibrium models which have an equivalent mathematical program or use mathematical programming to compute a fixed point. A primary goal of this survey is to identify interesting research avenues for people in mathematical programming with an interest in applying it to help control our environment with as little economic sacrifice as possible.
Presents the authors response to a commentary on their article `Incorporating Risk Aversion into Dynamic programming models' published in the November 1992 issue of the `American Journal of Agricultural Economics....
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Presents the authors response to a commentary on their article `Incorporating Risk Aversion into Dynamic programming models' published in the November 1992 issue of the `American Journal of Agricultural Economics.' Association of interyear risk with soil moisture level uncertainty; Determination of importance of temporal uncertainty.
Comments on the article `Incorporating Risk Aversion into Dynamic programming models,' by J.A. Krautkraemer, G.C. van Kooten and D.J. Young, published in the November 1992 issue of the `American Journal of Agricul...
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Comments on the article `Incorporating Risk Aversion into Dynamic programming models,' by J.A. Krautkraemer, G.C. van Kooten and D.J. Young, published in the November 1992 issue of the `American Journal of Agricultural Economics.' Distinction between intra- and interyear risk; Applicability of certainty equivalent method to agricultural problems.
One of the most significant issues in building general purpose massively parallel computers is the integration of computation and communication in an efficient and cost-effective manner. This paper presents a way of i...
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One of the most significant issues in building general purpose massively parallel computers is the integration of computation and communication in an efficient and cost-effective manner. This paper presents a way of integrating computation and communication from the viewpoint of the processor architecture. Two statements will be presented and examined: (1) computation and communication should be tightly coupled and their operation should be highly overlapped;and (2) communication structure should be efficient and simple, i.e. turnaround from data input to execution should be as short as possible using a simplified message handling mechanism, Briefly we can say 'Fuse communication and computation, then reduce the fused structure as simple and efficient as possible'. The fused structure is called RICA, Reduced Interprocessor-Communication Architecture, in this paper, The word 'Reduced' here means the simplified structure of message handling, invocation of a new thread, computation and message generation. Based on the RICA design principles, the authors have developed the EM-series parallel computers, EM-4, EM-X and EM-5. This paper concentrates on the architecture and implementation of EM-4, whose first prototype has been fully operational since April 1990. The communication performance of EM-4 is comparable with its computation performance. These two primitives are efficiently and simply fused within the EM-4 architecture, i.e. a simple fused pipeline which performs message handling, instruction execution and packet output: message-handling time is two RISC clocks which is independent of executing processor instructions. This pipeline naturally includes a sequential RISC pipeline for executing local operations. Secondly this paper evaluates RICA by implementing on EM-4 several programming models generally considered 'effective' or 'promising'. The multi-threaded model, message passing model and data-parallel model have been implemented and a shared-memory model is be
I/D abstraction is offered as a new high-level approach to interprocess communication. Functional components of a distributed system are written as encapsulated modules that act upon local data structures, some of whi...
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I/D abstraction is offered as a new high-level approach to interprocess communication. Functional components of a distributed system are written as encapsulated modules that act upon local data structures, some of which may be published for external use. Relationships among modules are specified by logical connections among their published data structures. Whenever a module updates published data, I/O takes place implicitly according to the configuration of logical connections. The Programmers' Playground, a software library and runtime system supporting I/O abstraction, is described. Design goals include the separation of communication from computation, dynamic reconfiguration of the communication structure, and the uniform treatment of discrete and continuous data types. Support for end-user configuration of distributed multimedia applications is the motivation for the work.
From the point of view of distributed programming one of the most interesting communication mechanisms is associative tuple matching in a shared dataspace, as exemplified in the Linda coordination language. Linda has ...
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From the point of view of distributed programming one of the most interesting communication mechanisms is associative tuple matching in a shared dataspace, as exemplified in the Linda coordination language. Linda has been used as a coordination layer to parallelize several sequential programming languages, such as C and Scheme. In this paper we study the combination of Linda with a logic language, whose result is the language Extended Shared Prolog (ESP). We show that ESP is based on a new programming model called PoliS, that extends Linda with Multiple Tuple Spaces. A class of applications for ESP is discussed, introducing the concept of ''open multiple tuple spaces''. Finally, we show how the distributed implementation of ESP uses the network version of Linda's tuple space.
To simplify the difficult task of writing fault-tolerant parallel software, we implemented extensions to the basic functionality of the LINDA or tuple-space programming model. Our approach implements a mechanism of tr...
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To simplify the difficult task of writing fault-tolerant parallel software, we implemented extensions to the basic functionality of the LINDA or tuple-space programming model. Our approach implements a mechanism of transaction processing to ensure that tuples are properly handled in the event of a node or communications failure. If a process retrieving a tuple fails to complete processing or a tuple posting or retrieval message is lost, the system is automatically rolled back to a previous stable state. Processing failures and lost messages are detected by time-out alarms. Roll-back is accomplished by reposting pertinent tuples. Intermediate tuples produced during partial processing are not committed or made available until a process completes. In the absence of faults, system overhead is low. The fault-tolerance mechanism is implemented at the system level and requires little programmer effort or expertise. Two implementations of the model are discussed, one using a UNIX network of workstations and one using a Transputer network. Data measuring model overhead and some aspects of system performance in the presence of faults is presented for an example system.
Two models of computation which are suitable for the description of parallel scientific calculations on large data structures are presented. Data parallel assignment is a construct which may be used to specify the app...
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