We introduce n(n−1)/2 natural involutions (“toggles”) on the set S of noncrossing partitions π of size n, along with certain composite operations obtained by composing these involutions. We show that for many operations T of this kind, a surprisingly large family of functions f on S (including the function that sends π to the number of blocks of π) exhibits the homomesy phenomenon: the average ...

One well-known construct for managing shared resources in a parallel system is Hoare's monitorss4], which encapsulate the shared data, operations on it, and synchronization between operations. This paper describes managers, a version of monitors for the declarative language Idd8]. Like monitors, managers provide encapsulation; however, managers make two key improvements critical to parallel exe...

This paper addresses the optimization possibilities of cargo operations onboard ship in order to minimize the operational costs through optimal structure of resources required. Since the setup model consists of composite objective function with several decision variables whose solution is constrained in the field Z+, the method for direct finding of optimal solution does not lead to satisfactor...

Modern large-scale distributed systems often rely on eventually consistent replicated stores, which achieve scalability in exchange for providing weak semantic guarantees. To compensate for this weakness, researchers have proposed various abstractions for programming on eventual consistency, such as replicated data types for resolving conflicting updates at different replicas and weak forms of ...

Concurrent data structures provide the means to multi-threaded applications to share data. Data structures come with a set of predefined operations, specified by the semantics of the data structure. In the literature and in several contemporary commonly used programming environments, the notion of iterations has been introduced for collection data structures, as a bulk operation enhancing the n...

Abstract— Due to the superior physical and mechanical properties Glass fiber-reinforced (GFRP) composite materials are very attractive for applications like aerospace and air craft structural components. This results a large number of research papers on machining of these composite laminates. Out of all the machining operations, most commonly used operation is drilling. However, drilling operat...

The composite service design modeling is an essential process of the service-oriented software development life cycle, where the candidate services, composite services, operations and their dependencies are required to be identified and specified before their design. However, a systematic service-oriented design modeling method for composite services is still in its infancy as most of the exist...

A new digital signature scheme and public key cryptosystem are proposed which use operations in a prime order subgroup of Z n for a composite number n. There are similarities with the best known digital signatures and public key cryptosystems (RSA and discrete logarithm based schemes) in terms of the mathematical structure. With regard to computational requirements the new schemes are competiti...