Alternative Implementation of Atomic Form Factors

Reduced-Form Implementation

This paper studies resource-allocation mechanisms by using a reduced-form notion of mechanism. We formulate a mechanism by specifying the state space of the mechanism, the set of outcomes that agents can induce in a given state, and the set of admissible outcomes in each state. This notion of mechanism includes the Walrasian mechanism and majority voting as well as all game forms. With this not...

Generic Implementation of Free Form

Atomic Section: Concept and Implementation

ABSTRACT A key source of complexity in parallel programming arises from ne-grained synchronization. In the shared memory programming language OpenMP, mutual exclusion for shared data access is achieved by critical sections or locks. The critical section degrades the performance by serializing all critical section instances through a global lock, and impedes a scalable parallelism by the underly...

An Alternative Implementation of Routines

In the current conventional implementation of a routine, a parent receives the outcome of its child. A parent may be coded such that it does not use the outcome of its children, thus allowing delegation an alternative implementation of the routine. As part of its execution, such a parent can replace itself by its children. The parent thus delegates the responsibility for its outcome to its chil...

Alternative Parameterizations of Product-Form Queueing Networks

product-form queueing networks are considered which allow for conceptual job initiations and terminations (such as a central server model). It is shown that the product-form expression can be parameterized with either mean job resource usages, total server busy times, or overall server utilizations. Measurement and computational efficiencies resulting from these alternative parameterizations ar...