We show that in modeling social interaction, particularly dialogue, the attitude of obligation can be a useful adjunct to the popularly considered attitudes of belief, goal, and i...
The locality of the data in parallel programs is known to have a strong impact on the performance of distributed-memory multiprocessor systems. The worse the locality in access pa...
Xinmin Tian, Shashank S. Nemawarkar, Guang R. Gao,...
A partial evaluator, given a program and a known "static" part of its input data, outputs a specialised or residual program in which computations depending only on the st...
This paper presents, fromthe author's perspective, the problems that occur in practice during data modelling. The author's experiences are a result of a considerable num...
Inter-process communication (ipc) has to be fast and e ective, otherwise programmers will not use remote procedure calls(RPC),multithreadingand multitasking adequately. Thus ipc p...