Our research addresses the general topic of atomic update of shared data structures on large-scale shared-memory multiprocessors. In this paper we consider alternative implementations of the general-purpose single-address atomic primitives fetch and , compare and swap, load linked, and store conditional. These primitives have proven popular on small-scale bus-based machines, but have yet to bec...

T o those who are unfamiliar with the method, eXtreme Programming might conjure up visions of programmers madly hacking away without concern for analysis, architecture, design, or consequences. Indeed, people have frequently made such accusations. Yet such claims are not only baseless, they are dia-metrically opposed to what XP is all about. XP is the brainchild of Kent Beck, and he describes i...

Pickup and delivery problems with time windows (PDPTW) are challenging yet realistic scheduling problems in which each delivery vehicle is assigned to handle different pairs of pickup-anddelivery requests. Our previous work successfully adapted the push forward insertion heuristic (PFIH) for initialization, and proposed a new swap operator to effectively solve PDP-TWs. In this paper, we improve...

The set of techniques to price interest-rate derivatives that stemmed from the original work of Heath, Jarrow and Morton (HJM) in the late 1980s (HJM 1989) are referred to in this book as the ‘modern’ or the ‘LIBOR-marketmodel’ approach. At a superficial glance, the differences between the various ‘incarnations’ of the approach might appear greater than what they have in common. The state varia...