This paper examines ten possible topological interpretations of connection and for each interpretation, identifies sufficient conditions under which a significant class spaces provides models General Extensional Mereotopology with Closure Conditions (GEMTC) in some key mereotopological ideas align their analogues. In particular, there is an interpretation the non-empty sets any symmetric topolo...

The General Social Survey Program has been gathering data for some time now in a series of independent annual household surveys. A rich collection of data now exists for social science and other researchers. One interesting potential tool is the integration of data across two or more cycles. This means using the data from two or more cycles to estimate quantities of interest. There are two ways...

The Perfect benchmarks are a collection of scientific and engineering application-level programs that have been widely used to compare the performance of many different computer systems. We describe our experiences porting the trfd program from this collection to the Connection Machine CM-200 and CM-5. We find that this program maps well to an SIMD architecture when the underlying structure of ...

This paper studies optimal production subsidy in a mixed duopoly with separation between ownership and management. Although many existing literature shows that the first best production allocation is achieved under several economic environments (so-called irrelevance result), we find that this result holds in the following two cases. (1) The owners simultaneously/sequentially decide their sales...