MPI-2’s one-sided communication interface has become prevalent in scientific applications. One of the important operations in a one sided model is read-modifywrite. MPI-2 semantics provide MPI Put, MPI Get and MPI Accumulate operations which can be used to implement the read-modify-write functionality. The different strategies yield varying performance benefits depending on the underlying one-s...

One of the visions almost excessively quoted in current discussions of what the information infrastructure of the WWW may ultimately turn out to be is Vannevar Bush’s article ”As we may think” written in 1945, and thus quite some time before the advent of computers as we know them today. In fact, Bush’s vision concerns the organization of information much more than the technical means and instr...

Why do we represent the world around us using causal generalizations, rather than, say, purely statistical generalizations? Do causal representations contain useful additional information, or are they merely more efficient for inferential purposes? This chapter considers the second kind of answer: it investigates some ways in which causal cognition might aid us not because of its expressive pow...

The main objective of the paper is to state newly fixed point theorems for set-valued mappings in the framework of 0-complete partial metric spaces which speak about a location of a fixed point with respect to an initial value of the set-valued mapping by using some $C$-class functions. The results proved herein generalize, modify and unify some recent results of the existing literature. As an ...

Various traditions within developmental science and psychology have concentrated on either personal or collective correlates as manifestations of well-being. Our claim is that the well-being of any one person is highly dependent on the well-being of her relationships and on the community in which she resides ~Nelson & Prilleltensky, 2005; Prilleltensky, Nelson, & Peirson, 2001!. Well-being may ...