Showing papers in "Future Generation Computer Systems in 1991"

TL;DR: The general formalism of neural networks is provided and two neural networks learning algorithms: gradient backpropagation and learning vector quantization are described, illustrating the behavior of these algorithms on a particular application in speech processing.

TL;DR: A dataflow execution model, DIALOG, for logic programs which operates on an intermediate virtual machine that utilises a new variable binding scheme that eliminates dereference operations for accessing variables, and therefore supports OR-parallelism in the highly distributed dataflow environment.

TL;DR: This implementation is based on the AND/OR Process Model which allows the exploitation of both AND and OR parallelism in logic programs, and a distributed memory model is used and a decentralized control mechanism has been designed.

TL;DR: The authors investigate the possible improvement on the Rete pattern matcher for production systems and indicate that the multiple root node-based production system interpreter would give a maximum of up to 6-fold improvement over the Lisp implementation of the rete-based Ops5 for the match step.

TL;DR: The next step in the complete integration of companies seems to be the consideration and integration of administrative areas characterized by the term ‘Computer-Integrated Office (CIO' and moreover the consideration of the logistical aspects.

TL;DR: A brief review of the state-of-progress in a number of distinct areas, natural language processing, including speech processing, expert systems and computer vision, leading to the conclusion that knowledge-based systems technology shows great promise for the future.

TL;DR: Predicting where database technology will move in the near and not so near future is attempted by hypothesizing that developments have been driven in the past, and will so in the future, by three forces: new applications, new technologies, and new and evolving standards.

TL;DR: This paper proposes an alternative approach to use the replicated workers paradigm in a concurrent logic language (PARLOG), and shows that it is just as useful for logic languages as it is for procedural languages.

TL;DR: To widen their scope of applicability, functional languages need to include more features of nondeterminism and may need to be integrated with features from conventional languages, and the right sort of architectures for such extended languages may be less-specialised ones with a von Neumann flavour.

TL;DR: It is illustrated that the migration of existing software towards parallel platforms is a major problem for which some experimental solutions are under development now and the importance of a further integration of distributed and parallel computing is argued.

TL;DR: This paper firstly examines the features of neural networks which appear to hold promise, then balance this against the lack of real understanding about just what is taking place within the neural network itself, resulting in a set of sober conclusions concerning realistic expectations for the future.

TL;DR: The design and implementation of a parallel object-oriented stable storage (POOSS) system in the context of the PRISMA project has shown good results and also identified bottlenecks, candidates for further optimizations.

TL;DR: Brackenbury, I. and H. Sachar, The road to multimedia, Future Generation Computer Systems 7 (1991) 91-96.