Objectives: Dragon Systems is developing and building high performance, computationallyefficient interactive speech workstations, to sup'port adaptive speech recognition of large vocabulary, natural language speech input in real-time. These systems are based on the results of the multi-knowledge source (MKS) algorithm architecture and multi-processor accelerator hardware studies previously unde...

Assembly lines for mass manufacturing incrementally build production items by performing tasks on them while flowing between workstations. The configuration of an assembly line consists of assigning tasks to different workstations in order to optimize its operation subject to certain constraints such as the precedence relationships between the tasks. The operation of an assembly line can be opt...

This paper begins to investigate the question: “What is the proper role of humans in the operation of a military Spaceplane?” All too often, the question boils down to: “Should it be manned or unmanned?” While it’s true that some man-machine interface types require a man on-board and some don’t, this manned/unmanned oversimplification skews the true context of the issue. Therefore, this paper s...

`ronswanson` provides a simple-to-use framework for building so-called table or template models `astromodels`the modeling package multi-messenger astrophysical data-analysis framework, `3ML`. With `astromodels` and `3ML` one can build the interpolation of physical model result an expensive computer simulation. This then enables efficient reevaluation while, example, fitting it to dataset. While...

FastFlow is a structured parallel programming framework targeting shared memory multi-core architectures. In this paper we introduce a FastFlow extension aimed at supporting also a network of multicore workstations. The extension supports the execution of FastFlow programs by coordinating–in a structured way–the fine grain parallel activities running on a single workstation. We discuss the desi...