This paper describes a cooperative decentralized architecture for reactive real-time route guidance. The architecture is cooperative in the sense that it allows adjacent local controllers to exchange information regarding the traffic conditions in their territories. A set of local decision rules and associated heuristic functions to support the cooperative architecture are specified. A protocol...

In this paper we propose a new orthogonal partially shared memory architecture for the design of multiprocessor systems. The architecture allows processors to partially share a 2-D array of memory modules in an orthogonal way with less limitations than those imposed by the traditional orthogonal (OMP) architecture. Processors have direct access to large neighborhoods of memory modules which can...

We present a component-based software architecture that dynamically discovers and consumes remote services from distributed devices connected across a network. The architecture maintains its own local functionality, while also actively participating in its environment by discovering and responding to other devices as well. One novel capability of this software is its ability to synchronize its ...

In this paper a new orthogonal partially shared memory architecture for the design of multiprocessor systems is proposed. The architecture allows processors to partially share a 2-D array of memory modules in an orthogonal way with less limitations than those imposed by the traditional orthogonal (OMP) architecture. Processors have direct access to large neighborhoods of memory modules which ca...

This paper presents an architecture well suited for natural image classification or visual object recognition applications. The image content is described by a distribution of local prototype features obtained by projecting local signatures on a self-organizing map. The local signatures describe singularities around interest points detected by a wavelet-based salient points detector. Finally, i...

In memory ofPaolo Camerini Local search is a well-known and a well·investigated solution approach for the traveling salesman problem. It is not obvious, however, how local search for the TSP has to be implemented efficiently when each city has to be visited within one or more given time windows.1bis is particularly true when parallel computer architectures are available. We consider these quest...

points z z The UK system of government is one of the most centralized in the developed world. As a result, local governments have very few powers when it comes to tax regulation, while their policy choices are constrained by tightly controlled expenditure mandates. z z Nevertheless, there is evidence that local party control does matter. A switch from Conservative to Labour Party control usuall...

the world health organization’s (who’s) world health report 2010, “health systems financing, the path to universal coverage,” promoted universal health coverage (uhc) as an aspirational objective for country health systems. yet, in addition to the dimensions of services and coverage, distribution of coverage in the population, and financial risk protection highlighted by the report, the conside...