Advances in Computing Techniques

The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

• Foreword

• ALGORITHMS

  • Decompositions of Partially Defined Boolean Functions

  • Optimum Partitioning of a Rectilinear Layout

  • Finding Optimal Edge-Rankings of Trees — A Correct Algorithm —

  • A Parallel Image Segmentation Algorithm Based on Convex Hull

  • Some Algorithmic Problems Arising from Genome Informatics

  • Parallel Cubic Gridsort with Imposed Heap Constraint

  • Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams, Graph Theory and Computational Geometry

• DATABASES

  • VIEW: Cooperative Work Support by Database Functions

  • From Object Migration to Message Processing: A Re-look at Object Identity

  • Introduction to the Super Database Computer, SDC-II

  • A Framework for Modeling Cost in Multidatabases

  • The Multiple-Type Mechanism and View Functions of an Object-Oriented Persistent Programming Language INADA

• PARALLEL PROCESSING

  • Massively Parallel Processing Project of the Japanese Ministry of Education

  • BaLinda Plus: Adding Objects to Parallel Languages

  • Multigrid Preconditioning for Conjugate Gradient Method and Its Parallelization

  • A Framework for Visualising Parallel Computer System Performance

  • A Parallel Computer Architecture for Volume Rendering

  • A Multi-DSP Computer Engine for Vision Applications

  • GRAPE: Special Purpose Computer for Classical Many-Body Simulations

  • Synchronous Message-Passing Communications with Dynamic Channel Instantiation