Distributed processing of movement signaling

Distributed processing; distributed functions?

After more than twenty years busily mapping the human brain, what have we learned from neuroimaging? This review (coda) considers this question from the point of view of structure-function relationships and the two cornerstones of functional neuroimaging; functional segregation and integration. Despite remarkable advances and insights into the brain's functional architecture, the earliest and s...

Distributed Processing

Movement Control: Dedicated or Distributed?

Neural networks in which 'commands' spread 'horizontally' across multiple neurons have been believed to mediate motor pattern variation. A recent study shows that dedicated 'vertical' neural pathways can also underlie these variations.

Contract-Based Distributed Scheduling for Distributed Processing

To an increasing extent, large-scale information processing is a distributed phenomenon. As the trend in computing moves further towards distributed networks of powerful workstations and information servers, we see the growing importance of solutions to dynamic distributed scheduling problems. In these domains, resource providers are distributed both geographicany and bureaucratically, so that ...

Distributed Processing of Conjunctive Queries

We distinguish that Web query processing is composed of two phases: (a) retrieving information on documents related to the queries and ranking them, and (b) generating snippets, title, and URL information for the answer page. Using real data and a small cluster of index servers, we study four basic and key issues related to this first phase of query processing: load balance, broker behavior, pe...