Advanced modeling of control and optimization in management science often leads to a computational complexity which cannot be handled by traditional algorithms and computer systems. On this background the paper develops a general approach to combine the power of distribution and parallelism in...

Part I: A Database System Architecture for a Shared Main Memory-Based Storage -- Part II: Database Operator Execution on a Shared Main Memory-Based Storage -- Part III: Evaluation -- Part IV: Conclusions.

"This book offers new and established perspectives on architectures, services and the resulting impact of emerging computing technologies, including investigation of practical and theoretical issues in the related fields of grid, cloud, and high performance computing"--Provided by publisher.

The Ant System is a new meta-heuristic method particularly appropriate to solve hard combinatorial optimization problems. It is a population-based, nature-inspired approach exploiting positive feedback as well as local information and has been applied successfully to a variety of combinatorial...