ppxscal/embedding_network huggingface dataset:
Panel on Electronic Funds Transfer
Authors: John Dugger, A. D. Kranzley, Peter Lacovara, Joseph Mazzetti
Venue: Proceedings of the sixth symposium on Data communications (1979)

Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) systems cover a wide gamut of applications. Some of the latest gaining popularity are bank-by-phone and sophisticated corporate cash management applications. Basically the systems fall into one of two categories: Retail, which is consumer oriented and Wholesale, which is corporation oriented. This panel will be discussing both types of systems. While many attributes of Retail and Wholesale EFT systems are similar, there are significant differences between them and this will be highlighted during the discussion. Financial institutions, such as banks, are major users of data communications. We are relying on data communications, in an ever increasing manner, to deliver our products and services to our customers, both consumers and corporations.
The use of modulus division in time slice simulation
Authors: Robert J. Wimmert
Venue: Proceedings of the 17th annual symposium on Simulation (1984)

This paper presents a data storage procedure to be used in time-slice simulation models which will result in a significant decrease in the model execution time.
Coding guidelines for pipelined processors
Authors: James W. Rymarczyk
Venue: ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News (1982)

This paper is a tutorial for assembly language programmers of pipelined processors. It describes the general characteristics of pipelined processors and presents a collection of coding guidelines for them. These guidelines are particularly significant to compiler developers who determine object code patterns.
Minimizing energy requirements for broiler growout operations
Authors: N. E. Collins, E. W. Walpole
Venue: Proceedings of the 9th conference on Winter simulation - Volume 2 (1977)

A simulation of on-farm broiler production outlined. The simulation determines the cost of building and owning a broiler house plus the cost of the Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) required to maintain the desired house temperature and humidity. The model uses the daily high and low ambient temperatures to determine the amount supplemental heat required. Grower management and construction practices have been evaluated in terms of fuel conservation potential and determine the optimum level of insulation. Limited area brooding can reduce fuel consumption by 56 percent. Increasing the width of the house could reduce fuel costs by 25 cents per broiler and construction costs by 15 cents per broiler. It has been found that the optimum level of insulation is a function grower management practice and the rate inflation associated with fuel cost. The economics associated with the solar heating of broiler houses is also discussed. In 1976, the Delmarva Poultry Industry (DPI) produced 380 million broilers. According to a study by the DPI Energy Committee (17), brooding or heating of broiler houses was the largest consumer of energy in the production system. Agricultural Engineers at the University of Delaware have been working with DPI to develop simulation of on-farm broiler production. The simulation has required the development of mathematical descriptions of broiler, the broiler house and the grower management practice. The model is being used to evaluate proposed house construction and grower management strategies terms of cost and energy conservation potential. The model is continually revised and ex-published with the approval of the Director the Delaware Agricultural Experiment Station as Misc. Paper No. 800. panded as new questions are posed by DPI. present, the portion of the supplemental heat load derived from ventilation is computed assuming continuous power ventilation. The amount of power ventilation required is determined by the amount of moisture produced in the house. Consideration of ammonia dilution, intermittent power ventilation and infiltration could alter results. When reliable mathematical descriptions of these factors are developed they can be added to the simulation.
SIMIS II - an environment for material flow systems simulation
Authors: Helmut Ludwigs
Venue: Proceedings of the 16th annual symposium on Simulation (1983)

A user-oriented model for simulation of automatic transportation systems is described. Special emphasis is laid on the description of the user model world and the problems in its design.
Design and principles of a fault tolerant system
Authors: MM. L. Boi, P. Michel
Venue: Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Software engineering (1978)

Inside a Toulousian project on &ldquo;Fault tolerant computing system&rdquo;, we are interested by error confinement and error recovery at the operating system and software application levels. This paper will discuss the determination of a global system architecture by a top-down approach and the principles of protection by capability. We will detail management of synchronization and object sharing between processes, by generalized monitors and path expression in this hierarchized system. Then we will present error recovery mechanisms (rollback).
Afterword
Authors: R. L. Wexelblat
Venue: ACM SIGPLAN Notices (1978)

The formal proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conference are to be published in a volume containing not only the papers, but edited transcriptions of the keynote speech, the discussions following each paper, and other relevant material. In this way, the organizers of the conference hope to provide a permanent archive of information on the early stages of the development of those languages which have proven their value through long and continued use.
Programming and its implication on programming languages: Overview and introduction
Authors: Kurt Maly
Venue: Proceedings of the 1975 annual conference (1975)

In the short time that has elapsed since the appearance of the special issue of Computing Survey, [8, 12, 23, 31, 32, 33], it has become one of the classics in computer science. Articles from that issue have become required reading material for introductory computer science courses at many universities. When I was asked to organize a panel session to serve as a sequel to this issue I was therefore understandably excited. As my first task I conducted an informal survey of what people from both academe and industry feel are the pragmatic issues of concern today. It is known that a strong correlation exists between the language and the culture a populace develops, and that the thought process of an individual is very much influenced by the language she grows up with. We might correspondingly ask how programming languages affect the thought process involved in solving problems. Proponents of FORTRAN and alike languages claim that no similar conclusions can be drawn for programming languages or at least that the degree of influence is considerably less. Which argument is used as a defense against the accusation that FORTRAN has induced a style detrimental to solving problems.
Transmission line models for transient analysis
Authors: Samuel J. Garrett
Venue: Proceedings of the 11th Design Automation Workshop (1974)

Digital signals in some high speed computers and communication systems are required to have rise and fall times below 5 nanoseconds and pulse widths less than i00 nanoseconds. Designers who design systems which operate with short rise and fall times and narrow pulse widths face the problem that circuit paths whether they are twisted pair cables, printed circuit paths, striplines, microstrip lines, or another realization propagate signals as transmission lines. They have faced the problem that transmission lines introduce when they are not properly terminated or when the transient delay of the line is not included in the overall system time delay. Furthermore, the design of signal distribution circuits has been accomplished without adequate analytical support. An approximation of a transmission by a ladder network with a few series RL and shunt RC sections is inaccurate. The accuracy of the approximation can be improved by subdividing the line into more sections at the expense of computing time required for a solution.
Multivariate simulation output analysis: Past, present, and future
Authors: Linda Weiser Friedman
Venue: Proceedings of the 16th conference on Winter simulation (1984)

The overwhelming majority of research into the design and analysis of simulation assumes that only a single response variable is of interest to the researcher. This is an impractical assumption. In these introductory remarks, the problem of multiple response in simulation analysis is addressed and some solutions are discussed.
Dynamic program behavior under paging
Authors: Gerald H. Fine, Calvin W. Jackson, Paul V. Mc Isaac
Venue: Proceedings of the 1966 21st national conference (1966)

In May, 1965, System Development Corporation (SDC) proposed to do some research to study program organization with respect to dynamic program behavior. Further, the proposal suggested that simulation techniques might be used to study the problem of resource allocation in a multiprocessor time-sharing system. Some of the reasons for the proposal related to the prospective utilization of the time-sharing hardware features of the GE and IBM time-sharing computers. At the time, there was considerable interest in investigating the concepts of program segmentation and page turning, both at SDC and in the time-sharing community at large. The concept of fixed-size paging on demand particularly, raised some questions of practicality. One of the early papers on the subject by Dennis and Glaser1 states that the concept of page-turning can be either useful or disastrous, depending on the class of information to which it is applied. However, the theory appeared to be both advantageous and elegant, so that the future of time-sharing seemed to be committed to the concept.
The LASS hardware processor
Authors: Paul F. Kunz, Richard N. Fall, Michael F., Hanoch Brafman
Venue: Proceedings of the 11th annual workshop on Microprogramming (1978)

The problems of data analysis with hardware processors are reviewed and a description is given for a programmable processor. This processor, the 168/E, has been designed for use in the LASS multi-processor system; it has an execution speed comparable to that of the IBM 370/168 and uses the subset of IBM 370 instructions appropriate to the LASS analysis task.
A Control Word Model for detecting conflicts between microprograms
Authors: David J. DeWitt
Venue: Proceedings of the 8th annual workshop on Microprogramming (1975)

The compilation and optimization of a microprogram for a computer with a horizontal control word format is highly machine dependent. The compilation phase involves the detection of parallelism in a sequence of source statements followed by a mapping into a sequence of microoperations. The optimization phase involves combining these microoperations to form microinstructions in an optimal manner. One of the important subprocesses of the optimization phase is determining whether or not two or more microoperations can be executed concurrently. This paper presents the Control Word Model for determining when two or more microoperations can be executed concurrently. The Control Word Model is a machine independent model of the semantics of the control words for microprogrammable computers. As will be demonstrated, the concurrency permitted is sometimes determined not simply by the hardware configuration of buses, register, memories, and ALUs but also by the format of the control word chosen by the designer. This observation has motivated the development of the Control Word Model.
GLEAM/1130-a production system base for computer-aided design
Authors: W. H. Sass
Venue: Proceedings of the 5th annual Design Automation Workshop (1968)

The partitioned computing system, operating several tasks concurrently, is an effective tool for computer-aided design. Such a system offers a high-performance man-machine interface and at the same time operates the low-speed graphic devices (such as plotters) continuously with small drain upon the system. The concept of queueing tasks for devices, instead of queueing users for the system, improves user-access and maintains a reasonably constant load upon the system's hardware. Strong resident support eases programming and extends the computing power by efficiently utilizing the resources of the small computer. The communications connection to a larger computer greatly expands the system's capability.
Numerical parametric integration of continuous functions with a singular derivative
Authors: D. G. Schweikert
Venue: Proceedings of the 1968 23rd ACM national conference (1968)

Much of the literature in numerical integration discusses the accuracy of an integration formula in terms of (a) the highest degree polynomial it can integrate exactly and (b) the coefficients of the lower order differences in the error term. This information is of little value when the function to be integrated has nonpolynomial-like characteristics, such as an infinite value of ordinate or slope. Generally, methods which deal with such functions (e.g., see Fox1) demand a considerable degree of mathematical expertise to extract the needed expansions from the function's original form. Such methods are not well suited to automatic computation except when restricted to a very narrow class of functions.
Information retrieval II: Variable Information Processing
Authors: M. Kosakoff, D. L. Buswell
Venue: Proceedings of the 1962 ACM national conference on Digest of technical papers (1962)

ONE OF THE important functions of our laboratory is the evaluation of a number of Navy missile systems. To perform this function effectively, we must collect, summarize, analyze, store, and retrieve large quantities of information on the production, surveillance, service use, repair, and final test results of missiles, missile components, and other weapon system hardware. To aid in the processing of this information, the files have been automated.
A Chebyshev method for the numerical solution of the one-dimensional heat equation
Authors: John C. Mason
Venue: Proceedings of the 1967 22nd national conference (1967)

Chebyshev series can be used not only for representing explicit functions but also for solving differential equations. Two Chebyshev methods, the selected points method and the tau method, have been described by Lanczos2 for the solution of ordinary differential equations. Moreover both methods have applications to partial differential equations. In a previous paper1 we have applied the selected points technique to derive a two-dimensional Chebyshev method for the solution of partial differential equations over bounded regions. And in the present paper we generalize the tau method to provide a one-dimensional method for the solution of the heat conduction equation over an infinite strip.
A database approach for managing VLSI design data
Authors: Randy H. Katz
Venue: Proceedings of the 19th Design Automation Conference (1982)

We describe an approach to managing information about VLSI designs, founded upon database system methods. A database component provides a low-level flat-file interface to stored data. Built on top is a design data management system, supporting the hierarchical construction of a design from primitive cells, and organizing data about alternative design representations and versions. Programs to provide a tailored interface to design data are also provided. The system simplifies the rapid construction of new design tools by taking responsibility for design data management.
On missile simulations under interrupted guidance conditions
Authors: Naim A. Kheir, Donald W. Sutherlin
Venue: Proceedings of the 11th conference on Winter simulation - Volume 1 (1979)

Several guidance laws have been proposed in the past for defense systems. Applications vary from tactical missiles (with different ranges) to target motion analysis (TMA) in naval combat control systems. Guidance techniques are typically classified as either classical or modern with the emphasis on modern being placed on techniques derived from optimal control. The motivation behind this paper is to consider the important applications where, an interceptor missile tracks on radar energy that is being reflected or emanating from a victim target. Data transmitted may be periodic, aperiodic or interrupted. Missile guidance when no data is being received is termed blind-mode guidance. This paper will briefly review classifical and modern schemes, then the question of what guidance strategy a missile in blind-mode should pursue that would result in the best probability of target hit will be addressed. This is followed by computer simulations of a tactical missile under interrupted guidance conditions along with a few unclassified results.
Preprocessing and Structural Features for a Multi-Fonts Arabic/Persian OCR
Authors: Madana Kavianifar, Adnan Amin
Venue: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (1999)

English and Chinese are languages, which have tremendously attracted interests of character recognition researchers. In contrast, research in the field of character recognition for Arabic scripts face major problems which is mainly related to the unique characteristics of these two like being cursive, multiple shapes of one character in different positions in a word and connectivity of characters on the baseline. The proposed work consists of three major phases. After digitizing the text, the original image is transformed in to a gray scale image using a 300-dpi scanner. Different steps of preprocessing such as noise reduction, global thresholding, skewing, recognizing connected components and grouping them are then applied on the image file. In the next phase, sub-words of all words are recognized and global features for each word such as number of its sub-words, number of peaks in vertical projection profile, number and position of the complementary characters and loops within each sub-word are extracted. Contour tracing plays the most important role in the phase of feature extraction.
An overview of the mesa processor architecture
Authors: Richard K. Johnsson, John D. Wick
Venue: ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News (1982)

This paper provides an overview of the architecture of the Mesa processor, an architecture which was designed to support the Mesa programming system [4]. Mesa is a high level systems programming language and associated tools designed to support the development of large information processing applications (on the order of one million source lines). Since the start of development in 1971, the processor architecture, the programming language, and the operating system have been designed as a unit, so that proper tradeoffs among these components could be made.
Inflight software simulation of the Harpoon missile
Authors: James V. Leonard, John J. Soderberg
Venue: Proceedings of the 16th annual symposium on Simulation (1983)

A brief overview of the Harpoon missile system is given. Previous means of implementing a simulation of the Harpoon are reviewed. Utilizing the General Purpose Digital Computer, GPDC, and mission software onboard the S-3B in conjunction with the Harpoon launch equipment and a flight shorting &ldquo;simulation&rdquo; connector, simulation of the Harpoon missile is accomplished. Comparisons are made between the S-3B/Harpoon simulation techniques and Harpoon simulation on other aircraft.
Computer simulation of the NASA water vapor electrolysis reactor
Authors: Allan M. Bloom
Venue: Proceedings of the 7th conference on Winter simulation - Volume 2 (1974)

A digital computer simulation of the water vapor electrolysis reactor, an oxygen regenerator to be used in extended-mission manned spacecraft, was developed as a design tool and as a means for predicting response to unusual operating conditions. Finite increment analysis was applied to the mass, heat, and momentum transfer processes of the unit, yielding systems of non-linear algebraic equations defining the reactor. Pseudo-linear Seidel and non linear Rudd iteration schemes provided solutions to the descriptive equations. Compared with experimental data, the model predicted measurable quantities within one percent and, additionally, yielded information never before measured.
A. P. I. S. Academic Project Information System
Authors: John P. Peddicord
Venue: Proceedings of the 6th annual ACM SIGUCCS conference on User services (1978)

Project management, planning and control; these are all concerns of management in commerce and industry, but do we in University Computing Centers share these concerns? I believe we do, but for many reasons, some of which we have in common with data processing in general and some of which are unique to the academic environment, there is no established and universally accepted management methodology in University Computing Centers. A particular result of the rapid technological change in D.P. is the difficulty of finding and keeping technically competent people. Once found they must be continually challenged otherwise they are likely to move on. Nevertheless, a User Services Department must maintain a high level of technical competence and this is, unfortunately, difficult to resolve with its primary function as a service organisation, in that, for the most part, technicians are not altruistic in nature. Their gratification is derived from interaction with a computer and face-to-face encounters are anathema to them.
Developments in computer simulation of gate level physical logic
Authors: Lionel Bening
Venue: Proceedings of the 16th Design Automation Conference (1979)

This paper discusses techniques developed for simulation of large physical logic systems at high speeds and with accurate timing.
The nucleus of a real-time operating system(a tutorial on the internals of RSX-11M)
Authors: David N. Cutler, Richard H. Eckhouse,  Jr., Mario R. Pellegrini
Venue: Proceedings of the 1976 annual conference (1976)

An introduction to, and an overview of, a real-time, multiprogrammed operating system nucleus is presented. Taking a tutorial slant, the paper presents both the hardware and software interrupt mechanisms utilized in support of the nucleus. Also covered are the management of system resources (memory and I/O), and the operation and control of the system. Thus the goal of this paper is to provide sufficient insight into the system described so that the reader can utilize this information in developing his own operating system.
APL algorithm for a sequential search for a hidden target in a two-dimensional region
Authors: A. J. Surkan
Venue: Proceedings of the eighth international conference on APL (1976)

An algorithm for sequentially selecting the coordinates of single candidate exploration sites has been designed with the objective of reducing the fraction of search areas abandoned with undetected targets. Developing and testing the algorithm via an interactive APL-SV system in a CMS environment permitted the off-line printing of maps depicting the search area at various stages of simulated exploration. As a basis for the search strategy, two function surfaces were defined and described by values on a regular grid covering the area. One of these surfaces representing an information map was designed to provide estimates of the uncertainty with which the outcome of each exploration could be predicted. The second surface representing a proximity map provides a numerical measure of the geographic nearness of candidate locations to previously sampled points. Both the information, and proximity maps are updated each time new information becomes available. Results of using the algorithm to combine information from the two maps indicate that the success ratio for hitting the target can be improved by a factor of more than two, relative to that expected with random searching.