as the e-commerce sites are being more secure and reliable in recent years and the number of transactions is rising rapidly, parallelism can help us to reduce response time and increase throughput for e-commerce transactions. this paper will investigate parallelism in on-line transaction processing. it aims to specify those aspects of e-commerce transactions that would profit from parallel proc...

The performance of production programs can be improved by firing multiple rules in a production cycle. In this paper, we present the multiple-contextsmultiple-rules (MCMR) model which speeds up production program execution by firing multiple rule concurrently and guarantees the correctness of the solution. The MCMR model is implemented using the RUBIC parallel inference model on the Intel iPSC/...

Agrammatic aphasic individuals exhibit marked production deficits for tense morphology. This paper presents three experiments examining whether a group of English-speaking agrammatic individuals (n=10) exhibit parallel deficits in their comprehension of tense. Results from two comprehension experiments (on-line grammaticality judgment studies) suggest that these individuals are impaired for ten...

A new hybrid flow shop scheduling problem with blocking is studied. The problem is characterized by multistage unrelated parallel machines and no intermediate buffer. Firstly, the math model of the hybrid scheduling problem is constructed. And then the computation method of production period is given. Due to there is no intermediate buffer, and there are unrelated parallel machines in multi-sta...

This paper presents a new production system architecture that takes advantage of modern associative memory devices to allow parallel production firing, concurrent matching, and overlap among matching, selection, and firing of productions. We prove that the results produced by the architecture are correct according to the serializability Criterion. A comprehensive event driven simulator is used ...

This paper gives a new application of DEA to evaluate the scheduling solutions of parallel processing. It evaluates the scheduling solutions of parallel processing using the non-convex DEA model, FDH model. By introducing each solution of parallel processing scheduling as a DMU with some relevant inputs and outputs this paper shows that how the most efficient schedule(s) can be identified.

The rationale for this volume is that much research in the past has focused either on speech perception or on production, with surprisingly little interaction between these two fields of investigation. The book contains nine chapters by expert researchers in perception and production, with the stipulated requirement that each contribution should make reference to both processes in order to high...

This article describes modeling speech production with multi-modal factors integrated into the Context Sequence Model (Wade et al. 2010). It is posited that articulatory information can be successfully incorporated and stored in parallel to the acoustic information in a speech production model. Results demonstrate that a memory sensitive to rich context and enlarged by the additional inputs fac...