Algorithm Theory - SWAT '92

Algorithm Theory - SWAT '92
Author: Otto Nurmi
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 454
Release: 1992-06-24
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540557067

The papers in this volume were presented at SWAT 92, the Third Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory. The workshop, which continues the tradition ofSWAT 88, SWAT 90, and the Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures (WADS 89, WADS 91), is intended as an international forum for researchers in the area of design and analysis of algorithms. The volume contains invited papers by L.G. Valiant (Direct bulk-synchronous parallel algorithms), A.A. Razborov (On small depth threshold circuits), G. Gonnet (Efficient two-dimensional searching), and E. Welzl (New results on linear programming and related problems), together with 34 selected contributed papers. Contributions cover algorithms and data structures in all areas, including combinatorics, computational geometry, data bases, parallel and distributed computing, and graphics.

Ada-Europe '93

Ada-Europe '93
Author: Michel Gauthier
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1993-06-07
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540568025

This volume contains the proceedings of the twelfth Ada-Europe conference, held in France in 1993. The French name "Ada sans fronti res" (the only French words in the book) symbolizes the unlimitedness and novelty of Ada, as well as Europe-wide interest. Many papers relate to Ada-9X, the new standard that the Ada coimmunity is close to achieving after worldwide consultation and debate about requirements, specification, anddetailed definition. Their focus is on management, real-time, and compiler validation. Part of the conference was on object orientation, together with various issues relating to the general structure of the language, including exceptions to a certain use of genericity and heterogeneous data, efficiency, formal requirements and CASEs, and comparison with a competitor language. A third part relates to real-time, past with performance measurement, present with certification andapplications, and future with the ExTRA project and 9X.

PARLE '93 Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe

PARLE '93 Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe
Author: Arndt Bode
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 796
Release: 1993-06-07
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540568919

Parallel processing offers a solution to the problem of providing the processing power necessary to help understand and master the complexity of natural phenomena and engineering structures. By taking several basic processing devices and connecting them together the potential exists of achieving a performance many times that of an individual device. However, building parallel application programs is today recognized as a highly complex activity requiring specialist skills and in-depth knowledge. PARLE is an international, European based conference which focuses on the parallel processing subdomain of informatics and information technology. It is intended to become THE European forum for interchange between experts in the parallel processing domain and to attract both industrial and academic participants with a technical programme designedto provide a balance between theory and practice. This volume contains the proceedings of PARLE '93. The PARLE conference came into existence in 1987 as an initiative from the ESPRIT I programme and the format was revised in 1991/92. PARLE '93 is the second conference with the new format and was held in Munich.

Advances in Spatial Databases

Advances in Spatial Databases
Author: David Abel
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 552
Release: 1993-06-07
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540568698

The Third International Symposium on Large Spatial Databases (SSD '93) was held at the National University of Singapore in June 1993. The previous meetings of the series were at Sanata Barbara (1989) and Zurich (1991). The meetings are planned as a forum for researchers and practitioners specializing in database theory for and advanced applications of Spatial Information Systems. This volume constitutes the proceedings of the symposium. It contains 25 selected papersand three keynotes papers: "Spatial data management in database systems: research directions" (W. Kim), "From extensible databases to interoperability between multiple databases and GIS applications" (H.-J. Schek), and "The SEQUOIA 2000 project" (M. Stonebraker). The selectedpapers are collected into sections on: data modeling, spatial indexing, indexing mechanisms, handling of raster and vector data, spatial database systems, topology, storage management, query retrieval,knowledge engineering in SDS, and 3-dimensional data handling.

New Trends in Neural Computation

New Trends in Neural Computation
Author: José Mira
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 772
Release: 1993-05-27
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540567981

Neural computation arises from the capacity of nervous tissue to process information and accumulate knowledge in an intelligent manner. Conventional computational machines have encountered enormous difficulties in duplicatingsuch functionalities. This has given rise to the development of Artificial Neural Networks where computation is distributed over a great number of local processing elements with a high degree of connectivityand in which external programming is replaced with supervised and unsupervised learning. The papers presented in this volume are carefully reviewed versions of the talks delivered at the International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN '93) organized by the Universities of Catalonia and the Spanish Open University at Madrid and held at Barcelona, Spain, in June 1993. The 111 papers are organized in seven sections: biological perspectives, mathematical models, learning, self-organizing networks, neural software, hardware implementation, and applications (in five subsections: signal processing and pattern recognition, communications, artificial vision, control and robotics, and other applications).

Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications

Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications
Author: Marc Bezem
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1993-03-03
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540565178

The lambda calculus was developed in the 1930s by Alonzo Church. The calculus turned out to be an interesting model of computation and became theprototype for untyped functional programming languages. Operational and denotational semantics for the calculus served as examples for otherprogramming languages. In typed lambda calculi, lambda terms are classified according to their applicative behavior. In the 1960s it was discovered that the types of typed lambda calculi are in fact appearances of logical propositions. Thus there are two possible views of typed lambda calculi: - as models of computation, where terms are viewed as programs in a typed programming language; - as logical theories, where the types are viewed as propositions and the terms as proofs. The practical spin-off from these studies are: - functional programming languages which are mathematically more succinct than imperative programs; - systems for automated proof checking based on lambda caluli. This volume is the proceedings of TLCA '93, the first international conference on Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications,organized by the Department of Philosophy of Utrecht University. It includes29 papers selected from 51 submissions.

Analogical and Inductive Inference

Analogical and Inductive Inference
Author: Klaus P. Jantke
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1992-09-23
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540560043

This volume contains the text of the five invited papers and 16 selected contributions presented at the third International Workshop on Analogical and Inductive Inference, AII `92, held in Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, October 5-9, 1992. Like the two previous events, AII '92 was intended to bring together representatives from several research communities, in particular, from theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence, and from cognitive sciences. The papers contained in this volume constitute a state-of-the-art report on formal approaches to algorithmic learning, particularly emphasizing aspects of analogical reasoning and inductive inference. Both these areas are currently attracting strong interest: analogical reasoning plays a crucial role in the booming field of case-based reasoning, and, in the fieldof inductive logic programming, there have recently been developed a number of new techniques for inductive inference.

Real-Time: Theory in Practice

Real-Time: Theory in Practice
Author: J.W.de Bakker
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 740
Release: 1992-06-24
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540555643

In the past decade, the formal theory of specification, verfication and development of real-time programs has grown from work of a few specialized groups to a real "bandwagon". Many eminent research groups have shifted their interests in this direction. Consequently, research in real-time is now entering established research areas in formal methods, such as process algebra, temporal logic, and model checking. This volume contains the proceedings of a workshop dedicated to the theory of real-time with the purpose of stepping back and viewing the results achieved as well as considering the directions of ongoing research. The volume gives a representative picture of what is going on in the field worldwide, presented by eminent, active researchers. The material in the volume was prepared by the authors after the workshop took place and reflects the results of the workshop discussions.

Algorithm Theory - SWAT 2000

Algorithm Theory - SWAT 2000
Author: Magnus M. Halldorsson
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 578
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 354044985X

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory, SWAT 2000, held in Bergen, Norway, in July 2000. The 43 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 105 submissions. The papers are organized in sections on data structures, dynamic partitions, graph algorithms, online algorithms, approximation algorithms, matchings, network design, computational geometry, strings and algorithm engineering, external memory algorithms, optimization, and distributed and fault-tolerant computing.

CONCUR '92

CONCUR '92
Author: Walter R. Cleaveland
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 596
Release: 1992-08-12
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9783540558224

This book contains a selection of research papers describing recent advancesin the theory of concurrent systems and their applications. The papers were all presented at the CONCUR '92 conference, which has emerged as the premiere conference on formal aspects of concurrency. The authors include such prominent researchers as R. Milner, A. Pnueli, N. Lynch, and V.R. Pratt. The results represent advances in the mathematical understanding of the behavior of concurrent systems: topics covered include process algebras, models of true concurrency, compositional verification techniques, temporal logic, verification case studies, models of probabilistic and real-time systems, models of systems with dynamic structure, and algorithms and decidability results for system analysis. A key feature of CONCUR is its breadth: in one volume it presents a snapshot of the state of the art in concurrency theory. Assuch, it is indispensible to researchers - and would-be researchers - in theformal analysis of concurrent systems.