Recursive loops in a logic program present a challenging problem to the PLP framework. On the one hand, they loop forever so that the PLP backward-chaining inferences would never s...
World steel trade becomes more competitive every day and new high international quality standards and productivity levels can only be achieved by applying the latest computational...
Multicast, an important communication mechanism, is frequently applied in parallel computing. The star graph interconnection network, when compared with the hypercube network, bei...
Multimedia vector instruction sets are becoming ubiquitous in most of the embedded systems used for multimedia, networking and communications. However, current compiler technology...
Many metaheuristics have difficulty exploring their search space comprehensively. Exploration time and efficiency are highly dependent on the size and the ruggedness of the search...