C 5.8 Spatial Analysis Martin Ester Preliminary Draft of August 1, 1998 Both, the number and the size of spatial databases are rapidly growing in applications such as geomarketing, astrophysics and molecular biology. This is mainly due to the amazing progress in scientific instruments such as satellites with remote sensors, telescopes or X-ray crystallography. While a lot of algorithms have bee...

Martin Kenney and Urs von Burg advance two claims in this paper. They assert first that the divergent performance of the Silicon Valley and Route 128 economies can be explained by the path-dependent technological trajectories of their leading industries rather than by the organization of their industrial systems. Second, they claim that these regional dynamics are best understood through an ana...

This lecture provides theoretical background required for static program analysis, and presents the idea of chaotic iterations. Abstract interpretation was introduced in the seminal paper by Cousot and Cousot [1]. The main idea is to map each of the program states to an abstract state. An abstract state may represent more than one concrete state. Using the abstract states, it will be easier to ...