If the distance between two vertices becomes longer after the removal of a vertex u, then u is called a hinge vertex. In this paper, a linear time sequential algorithm is presented to find all hinge vertices of an int...
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In this paper we study the use of parallelism to speed up execution of Answer Set Programs (ASP). ASP is an emerging programming paradigm which combines features from constraint programming, logic programming, and non...
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This paper introduces a calculus of weakest specification for supporting reuse of established components in deriving a design (in the sense of formal methods). The weakest specifunction generalizes the notions of weak...
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This paper introduces a calculus of weakest specification for supporting reuse of established components in deriving a design (in the sense of formal methods). The weakest specifunction generalizes the notions of weakest pre-specification and weakest parallel environment;but instead of calculating the weakest required component of a target specification, it calculates the weakest specification function whose value refines the target when applied to an established component. In particular it overcomes the restriction of those other calculi to taking merely one required component at a time. The theory of specifunctions is applied to a new weakest-design calculus in the context of BSP. The calculus is based on the par-seq specifunction which involves two required components: it places one established component in parallel with one required component and the result in sequence with another required component to meet a given specification. A calculus is provided for the par-seq specifunction and it is applied to the derivation of a distributed BSP algorithm for greatest common divisor.
As concurrent software systems become larger, the interaction of their components is becoming more complex. This interaction may limit reuse, making it difficult to validate design and correctness and perhaps forcing ...
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(纸本)0769510809
As concurrent software systems become larger, the interaction of their components is becoming more complex. This interaction may limit reuse, making it difficult to validate design and correctness and perhaps forcing reengineering of these systems in order to meet future requirements. In order to reduce this complexity and to build stable and adaptable concurrent software systems, we present an approach that emphasizes the separation of interaction components from the functional components.
This paper discusses the problem of risk in optimistic simulation protocols, using as an example, simulation of a distributed mutual exclusion protocol with strong consistency properties. The simulation model is augme...
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(纸本)076951104X
This paper discusses the problem of risk in optimistic simulation protocols, using as an example, simulation of a distributed mutual exclusion protocol with strong consistency properties. The simulation model is augmented to detect model inconsistency errors resulting from risky optimistic simulation. While the model runs sequentially without consistency errors, errors occur when the model is executed in parallel optimistically. Some of the errors entirely violate the fundamental mutual exclusion properties of the model itself. To address this problem, we extend the optimistic simulation library to eliminate these inconsistencies. We discuss the details of these extensions and the performance tradeoff for adding them.
Dominance constraints are logical tree descriptions originating from automata theory that have multiple applications in computational linguistics. The satisfiability problem of dominance constraints is NP-complete. In...
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This paper presents linguistic primitives for publish/subscribe programming using events and objects. We integrate our primitives into a strongly typed object-oriented language through four mechnisms: (1) serializatio...
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(纸本)1581133359
This paper presents linguistic primitives for publish/subscribe programming using events and objects. We integrate our primitives into a strongly typed object-oriented language through four mechnisms: (1) serialization, (2) multiple subtyping, (3)closures, and (4) deferred code evaluation. We illustrate our primitives through Java, showing how we have overcome its respective lacks. A precompiler transforms statements based on our publish/subscribe primitives into calls to specifically generated typed adapters, which resemble the typed stubs and skeletons by the rmic precompiler for remote method invocations in Java
Dominance constraints are logical tree descriptions originating from automata theory that have multiple applications in computational linguistics. The satisfiability problem of dominance constraints is NP-complete. In...
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(纸本)9780898714906
Dominance constraints are logical tree descriptions originating from automata theory that have multiple applications in computational linguistics. The satisfiability problem of dominance constraints is NP-complete. In most applications, however, only normal dominance constraints are used. The satisfiability problem of normal dominance constraints can be reduced in linear time to the configuration problem of dominance graphs, as shown recently. In this paper, we give a polynomial time algorithm testing configurability of dominance graphs (and thus satisfiability of normal dominance constraints). Previous to our work no polynomial time algorithms were known.
The purpose of my HCI research is to use the Design Patterns approach to establish a framework to support designing WIMP User Interfaces. In this paper I will introduce the WIMP+ User Interfaces and the idea to use th...
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(纸本)1581132484
The purpose of my HCI research is to use the Design Patterns approach to establish a framework to support designing WIMP User Interfaces. In this paper I will introduce the WIMP+ User Interfaces and the idea to use the Acquisition-Computation-Expression-Execution [6] (ACEE) Design Pattern to build the framework.
As a part of an ongoing effort to develop a "standard library" for scientific and engineering parallel applications, we have developed a preliminary finite element framework. This framework allows an applica...
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