Two new concepts in a certain class of Strategic Management (SM) methodologies and e-service applications are introduced, namely the adaptive algorithmic concept and the singular perturbation (sp) principle. A synoptic description of these principles is given and their usage in certain SM application problems and selected cases is presented. It is shown that the proposed algorithmic approach gr...

We consider a GPU accelerated program using Monte Carlo simulation to price a basket call option on 10 FX rates driven by a 10 factor local volatility model. We develop an adjoint version of this program using algorithmic differentiation. The code uses mixed precision. For our test problem of 10,000 sample paths with 360 Euler time steps, we obtain a runtime of 522ms to compute the gradient of ...

We will cover two topics First, Algorithmic Probability — the motivation for defining it, how it overcomes difficulties in other formulations of probability, some of its characteristic properties and successful applications. Second, we will apply it to problems in A.I. — where it promises to give near optimum search procedures for two very broad classes of problems. A strong motivation for revi...

In Part I we present and discuss implementations of both well-known and novel algorithms for fundamental problems of linear algebra over the field with two elements GF(2). In particular, we present the best known implementations for matrix-matrix multiplication and matrix decomposition for dense matrices over GF(2). These implementations are based on novel variants of the “M4RM” multiplication ...

The paper presents a data and task parallel low-level image processing environment for distributed memory systems. Image processing operators are parallelized by data decomposition using algorithmic skeletons. At the application level we use task decomposition, based on the Image Application Task Graph. In this way, an image processing application can be parallelized both by data and task decom...

English Abstract: Kenya is a frontier market for ‘financial technology’, or FinTech. This industry – which merges mobile telephony and digital data with commercial lending has grown spectacularly, millions of Kenyans borrowing household, emergency, expenses. industry’s frenzied growth been fuelled by not merely the pursuit profit, but also decidedly more developmental aspiration, namely inclusi...

A novel unit cell for analog, dynamic, random-access memory is described. The unit cell is implemented using a charge-coupled device (CCD) and features voltage-inholtage-out operation with low power. The unit cell is essentially an algorithmic voltage sampleand-hold (SIH) circuit. It is sufficiently compact for imager frame memory application and may also find application in analog neural netwo...

Previously referred to as ‘miraculous’ because of its surprisingly powerful properties and its application as the optimal theoretical solution to induction/inference, (approximations to) Algorithmic Probability (AP) and the Universal Distribution are of the greatest importance in computer science and science in general. Here we investigate the emergence, the rates of emergence and convergence, ...