energy, due to its increasing usage in various broad areas has been maintained as a vital factor in economic growth and development of societies. meanwhile, natural gas is considered as one of the most important energy sources. therefore, the efficiency and the productivity of the gas companies are crucial to be assessed. numerous examples from industrial multistage processes including internal...

This paper analyzes the absolute convergence of urban electricity productivity in China during 1990–2011, applying Spatial Error Smooth Transition Auto-regression Model, and examines the spatial effect in convergence process. Then it analyzes the stage characteristics of electricity productivity convergence during the process of electricity market reformation and the conditional convergence whi...

In every decade since the 1970’s, computer scientists have re-examined dataflow-based execution models, hoping the programming productivity benefits these models promise can be realized on practical hardware platforms to implement useful applications. Based on the recent Swift/T implementation of “implicitly parallel functional dataflow” (IPFD) for extremescale systems, we believe that the data...