To the present day, the performance of microprocessors has progressed dramatically. Recently, almost all computer systems use reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architectures. However, about 30 years ago, complex instruction set computer (CISC) architectures were widely used for almost all computer systems. The advantages and successes of RISC architectures are attributable to their simpli...

In financial disputes arising from divorce, inheritance, or the dissolution of a partnership, frequently the need arises to assign ownership of an indivisible item to one member of a group. This paper introduces and analyzes a dynamic auction for simply and e¢ciently allocating an item when participants are privately informed of their values. In the auction, the price rises continuously. A bidd...

Software systems must change over time. Changing business practices, the relentless advance of technology, and the demands of end users drive this evolution. The functionality required of applications inevitably changes in response to these factors. Consequently, in order to remain viable, applications must evolve to meet new requirements. Software component evolution is a major focus of effort...

Recent research on human learning has revealed a pervasive ability to track statistical structure in adulthood and infancy. Because statistical information abounds in visual and linguistic structure, statistical learning has potential for playing an important role in the acquisition of complex skill. This chapter summarizes the literature on statistical learning and evaluates it in terms of its...

In this paper, we introduce and characterize the dynamically deened recurrence dimension, a new topological invariant number, following the idea of a previous article 9], but with some modiications and improvements. We study some example of Toeplitz subshifts for which we can show that the recurrence dimension is a topologically invariant number diierent from the topological entropy.

The characteristic property of dynamically structured code is that relations between elements of executable code are established at run-time. The word "structured" underlines that these relations must be in some kind regular. What these relations must and/or may be is a subject for studies. We expect that the use of dynamically structured codes will allow to reduce the complexity of software an...