req1 ack1 req2 ack2 reqP ackP req ack req ack req ack parent client2 client1 merge Abstract A merge element combines two, concurrent, handshake streams. For every request received from a client, a merge element may send a request to its parent, and for each acknowledgement received from its parent, the merge element may send an acknowledgement to a client. We show that that a merge-element can ...

Merge conflicts, which are rather common throughout the process of software development, are more frequent and complex to resolve when using the distributed software development approach, where developers are geographically dispersed. Normally, in the case of workspace merge, the last developer to merge code is responsible of conciliating the changes made in parallel and resolving conflicts. Ho...

In this paper we examine the average running times of Batcher's bitonic merge and Batcher's odd-even merge when they are used as parallel merging algorithms. It has been shown previously that the running time of odd-even merge can be upper bounded by a function of the maximal rank diierence for elements in the two input sequences. Here we give an almost matching lower bound for odd-even merge a...

One of the main goals in developing an autonomous vehicle is programming the action of merging into the traffic lane from an entrance ramp. We seek to create such a behavior through the use of NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT) by evolving an agent over many generations to maximize a certain prescribed fitness function, which encourages a smooth merging behavior without crashing. Ou...

Package merge is a new modeling concept introduced into the latest version of the UML standard to help structure the UML metamodel. It is a relationship between two packages, where the contents of one package are merged into the contents of the other. Despite its importance in UML, package merge is not well understood. As part of our work towards understanding and improving package merge in par...

results providing and receiving peer feedback was easy to do, without interruption in daily workflow. the system can be used among the three hospital locations of the healthcare group. it was easy to retrieve and demonstrate cases for group discussion and analysis. a side effect was that the feedback project helped to demonstrate to external stakeholder that the radiologists are eager to work o...

The design and implementation of a double precision floating-point IEEE-754 standard adder is described which uses “flagged prefix addition” to merge rounding with the significand addition. The floating-point adder is implemented in 0:5 m CMOS, measures 1:8mm2, has a 3-cycle latency and implements all rounding modes. A modified version of this floating-point adder can perform accumulation in 2-...