This paper discusses the bookkeeping strategies for solving large multiple objective linear programs (MOLPs) on ADBASE, a well developed sequential software package, and on a parallel ADBASE algorithm. Three representative list creation schemes were rst analyzed and tested. The best of them, Binary Search with Insertion Sort (BSIS), was selected to be incorporated into ADBASE and the parallel A...

The purpose of this note is to offer a broad historical setting in which to review Yamey’s criticisms of Sombart and other historians regarding the significance they attributed to the introduction of double-entry bookkeeping for economic development. In a series of articles Yamey (1947, 1949, 1959, and1964, for example) challenged their views of the importance of double-entry bookkeeping to eco...

This memo presents a new production system for massive data processing on the Grid and other large computing facilities. The system is primarily targeted at being used with programs from the ILCSoft software framework developed partly within the EUDET project. The new system is written in Python and centered around a MySQL database. It provides the functionality that is needed for the submissio...

An application-level technique is described for farmer-worker parallel applications which allows a worker to be added or removed from the computing farm at any moment of the run time without affecting the overall outcome of the computation. The technique is based on uncoupling the farmer from the workers by means of a separate module which asynchronously feeds these latter with new “units of wo...

In 1494 Fra Luca Pacioli published in Venice one of the first printed mathematical books [P1494]. One section, Computis e Scripturis, is the first published description of partita doppia or double-entry bookkeeping, the foundation of accounting. Double-entry bookkeeping had been developed over a period of 200 years by Italian merchants and bankers. The aim of accounting is the measurement of a ...