Showing papers in "Future Generation Computer Systems in 1989"

TL;DR: This paper addresses some of the tougher requirements on current grand challenge research to ensure that it has enduring value in the forthcoming computational era.

TL;DR: Central to the strategy for developing a knowledge base for decision makers now and in the future are comprehensive numerical models of the complete Earth system — its atmosphere, oceans, ice, solid Earth and biota.

TL;DR: Four examples of analysis of the deformation and failure of microstructures, concerned with the development of shear bands in ductile single crystals and polycrystals, composite materials, and the failure of interfaces through separation are described.

TL;DR: A parallel algorithm for branch-and-bound problems is sketched that is designed to run on MIMD machines and exploits coarse grain parallelism and has a dynamic load-balancing strategy and a dynamic way to decide when communication is really useful.

TL;DR: The method gains from qualitative and experienced judgement of the operator in supervisory work such as set point scheduling, plant diagnosis and maintenance and would be a flexible and practical decision support system.

TL;DR: This paper discusses problems in ecology and epidemiology that represent grand scientific challenges and the epidemiology of infectious diseases because they represent closely related subjects.

TL;DR: A series of experimental and computational studies have been performed for two specific geometries, namely, the sharp fin and the swept compression corner, which elucidate the principal features of 3-D turbulent interactions at supersonic speeds.

TL;DR: The computing requirements posed by challenging problems in several disciplines are examined and contrasted with contemporary supercomputer resources and parallel processing appears to have the greatest potential for near-term success.

TL;DR: A technical analysis expert system for judging which names should be bought in stock market comes from two kinds of knowledge: Granville's Laws from the USA and heuristics relevant to the chart indigenous to Japan.

TL;DR: It will appear that this problem exhibits many aspects of parallel processing and it has the advantage that the scene is not obscured by complicated algorithmic aspects.

TL;DR: During the process of planning and designing in the construction industry, it is necessary to find the most appropriate proposal within a short time as there is extremely little time to make individual suggestions.

TL;DR: Details are described of a hierarchically distributed knowledge-based information system for controlling a greenhouse complex, an expert system development software system: MICCS, and a tomato crop disease diagnosis expert system developed using MICCS.

TL;DR: The structure that is presented in this article allows for simple functional specifications of the processes and for their compositionality and the parallel solution of the least squares problem is discussed.

TL;DR: The LAX report as discussed below led to a number of major achievements including the establishment of the National Science Foundation Supercomputing Centers.

TL;DR: An effort to develop an artificial intelligence-based generic training system (GTS) for industrial uses through the use of artificial intelligence technology and interactive simulation tools such as qualitative modeling is described.

TL;DR: This paper presents studies derived from several experiments, and a method for developing an automatic programming system by composing program components that can more efficiently support the development of practical systems.

TL;DR: In this article, a logic synthesis system based on a combined rule-based and algorithmic approach is presented, where not only tables for transformation are described as rules, but also a two level logic minimization algorithm is registered as one of the rules.

TL;DR: An intelligent on-line help system, ASSIST, which is designed to produce multi-sentential explanations in response to user's questions about computer terminology, and a user model is constructed throughout a session and used to accomplish text planning to achieve the user's goal extracted from the question.

TL;DR: The associative retrieval mechanism, which is realized by using a retrieval technique on the basis of keywords, is presented and a realistic approach for a content extraction and documents summarizing method, which aims at content retrieval, is described.

TL;DR: The black hole emerged as one of the first non-Newtonian "objects" to be recognized in Einstein's General Theory of Relativity and may happen to be the source of a large number of realistic astrophysical phenomena.

TL;DR: Applications of expert systems in the steel industry are described and a practical expert system is introduced which has been developed for blast furnace operation in the Kimitsu Works of Nippon Steel Corporation.

TL;DR: In this model a kind of string-reduction is proposed on the level of parallel tasks, a special reduction strategy avoids the duplication of work normally incurred by string reduction.

TL;DR: A committee was formed under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences to identify areas of materials science and engineering where a major impact might be realized, resulting from the emergence of supercomputer technology.

TL;DR: An introduction to the fifth generation computer systems is presented, under development to meet the knowledge information processing needs for the advanced information-oriented society of the 1990s, which clearly requires overcoming the technical limitations of conventional computers.

TL;DR: Computer speed and memory requirements needed for meeting various computational challenges in human vision modeling, chemistry, turbulence physics research and aerodynamics are discussed and compared with the capabilities of various existing computers and those projected to be available before the mid 1990s.

TL;DR: ES / SDEM (Software Development Engineering Methodology for Expert Systems) is developed by examining successful case histories from among 120 ESHELL ∗ (FUJITSU EXPERT SHELL) applications and the outline of ES /SDEM will be given.

TL;DR: An expert system called ATREX (Automobile TRoubleshooting EXpert system) currently under development, which assists a service mechanic in diagnosing vehicle faults, was found to be both flexible and maintainable.

TL;DR: An approach to fault diagnosis at petrochemical plants by expert systems is presented, which consist of an empirical and theoretical knowledge data base, and are applied to the Cyclohexane plant process.

TL;DR: DYMOS is an addition to the IHI Ship Administration System that is said to be capable of identifying the location and cause of trouble in the ship's propulsion plant and of drawing the operator's attention to this.