INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................... 326 I. HISTORY AND BACKGROUND OF LPO ....................................... 327 A. Evolution of Outsourcing .................................................... 327 B. Growth of LPO Industry ..................................................... 329 C. Risks and Benefits of LPOs .....................

In this paper, we first briefly survey automated termination proof methods for higher-order calculi. We then concentrate on the higher-order recursive path ordering, for which we provide an improved definition, the Computability Path Ordering. This new definition appears indeed to capture the essence of computability arguments à la Tait and Girard, therefore explaining the name of the improved ...

We investigate Leifer-Milner RPO approach for CCS and πcalculus. The basic category in which we carry out the construction is the category of term contexts. Several issues and problems emerge from this experiment; for them we propose some new solutions.

The language features and formal definitions of the three most popular process algebras, csp, ccs and lotos, are introduced and compared.

The phases of the ANISE project (Architectural Notions In Service Engineering) are briefly explained with reference to the work reported here. An outline strategy is given for translating ANISE descriptions to LOTOS (Language of Temporal Ordering Specification), thus providing a formal basis. It is shown how modular ANISE descriptions of features can be defined and then merged. Potential featur...

in this paper, several xed point theorems for t-contraction of two maps on cone metric spaces under normality condition are proved. obtained results extend and generalize well-known comparable results in the literature.

Several geological features, including sedimentary cone-in-cone structures and percussion marks, may resemble impact-generated shatter cones. Especially inexperienced workers may mistake such features for impact deformation. In 1997, our group investigated an alleged occurrence of shatter cones in the Hamada area of southeastern Morocco and found that these are actually cone-in-cone structures,...

In [arXiv:1006.4939] the enumeration order reducibility is defined on natural numbers. For a c.e. set A, [A] denoted the class of all subsets of natural numbers which are co-order with A. In definition 5 we redefine co-ordering for rational numbers. One of the main questions there, was:"For a specific c.e. set A, consider set of all enumerations of it which is generated by some Turing machine {...