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Process Cooperativity As A Feedback Metric In Concurrent Message-Passing Languages, Alexander Dean

Theses

Runtime systems for concurrent languages have begun to utilize feedback mechanisms to influence their scheduling behavior as the application proceeds. These feedback mechanisms rely on metrics by which to grade any alterations made to the schedule of the multi-threaded application. As the application's phase shifts, the feedback mechanism is tasked with modifying the scheduler to reduce its overhead and increase the application's efficiency.

Cooperativity is a novel possible metric by which to grade a system. In biochemistry the term cooperativity is defined as the increase or decrease in the rate of interaction between a reactant and a protein as the …

Software Component Metadata For Selecting And Verifying Model Compositions In Semi-Automated Forces Systems, Konstantinos Prapiadis

Theses

Research into a framework or methodology able to facilitate the integration or composition of existing software components into a new software system has a long history, both in software engineering in general and in modeling and simulation in particular. The potential benefits from the reuse of previously developed software components are well-known; they include reduction in both the cost and the time needed to develop a new system. In this thesis a methodology for the implementation of new simulation software systems using previously developed software components is developed and tested. The methodology is focused on semi-automated forces systems, an important …