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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Actor Model"”.
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Fault-tolerant and fault-recovering garbage collection for the actor model: a collage-based approach
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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The 1993 North Korean Nuclear Crisis: A Foreign Policy Analysis
In this paper I apply the Rational Actor model to the 1993-1994 North Korean Nuclear Crisis. I begin with two hypotheses: 1) North Korea attempted nuclear armament because of its perception of threat from South Korea and the United States; 2) North Korea attempted nuclear armament because it wanted …
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A theory of group decision-making applied to the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis decisions
… affecting another might be called the “rational actor model”. This model treats the state as the entity reaching the decision. The decision itself is seen as behavior that reflects a rational purpose or intent. The central concepts of the model center around the calculated weighing of goals, …
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U.S. policy of conditioning China's most-favored-nation status on intellectual property protection, 1991-1993
… of U.S. foreign policy interests, societal actors, institutions (the presidency or Congress), and the interaction between these institutions in the MFN decisionmaking process. By applying three conceptual models -- the rational actor model, the interest group model, and the interbranch …
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Efficient execution of fine-grained actors on multicore processors
The Actor model is a promising model for programming new computing platforms such as the multicores and cloud computers, primarily due to features such as inherent concurrency and isolation of state. However, the model is often perceived to be fundamentally inefficient on stock multicore …
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Improving Polymorphism and Concurrency in Common Object Models
Most common object models of distributed object systems have a limited set of object-oriented features, lacking the advanced features of `polymorphism' (an abstraction mechanism that represents a quality or state of being able to assume different forms) and `concurrency' (the ability to have more …
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The Cult of the Persuasive: The U.S. Military’s Aversion to Coercion in Security Assistance
… back in the causal chain, I offer two competing models of strategy selection—the rational actor model, and the Cult of the Persuasive. I argue that the rational actor model sufficiently explains U.S. strategy in pre-Vietnam security assistance efforts, but cannot explain U.S. advisors’ persistent …
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A concurrent object-oriented approach for requirements analysis and design of embedded systems
… that derives its concurrency semantics from the Actor model. The two approaches are illustrated by a simple but representative process control problem. The requirements analysis approach in conjunction with the design approach provides a high level of traceability and promotes the reusability of …
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Playing Dead: Staging Corpses, Ghosts, and Statues in Early Modern Drama
… caught between the fictional body and the living actor, model the relation between playgoer, actor, and playwright as they work together to produce theatrical fictions. The dramatized impact of liminal bodies on their onstage spectators draws playgoers' attention to their own experience of the …
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Japan's Security Decisions: Allison's Conceptual Models and Missile Defense Policy
… utility of Allison's three policy-making models in analyzing contemporary foreign policy problems. It also explores the effect of cultural considerations on Allison's concepts by delving into the unique themes of Japanese politics. The climate in which this policy decision is made is …
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Systematic testing for actor programs
… difficult, especially for shared-memory models of programming. The actor model of programming offers a promising alternative for developing concurrent systems based on message passing. In actor-based systems, shared-memory access is not allowed, and the key source of non-determinism is …
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Performance Management System Reform : Results-Based Budgeting in the Government of Alberta (2012-2014)
… and accountability associated with the rational actor model of performance management. In Alberta, some of the outcomes of RBB include horizontal integration, strategic policy alignment, and cultural change. Alberta’s experience with RBB also supports the constructivist model of performance …
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Consistency in actor based server-client architecture based applications
… makes use of a server-client architecture. The actor model of programming is the main focus, and we analyze multiple different cases and determine how it performs with both few machines as well as with scalability. We focus on analyzing multiple different constraints as well called consistency …
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Models of Intention for Human-Robot Interaction
… This includes a system based on hidden Markov models, a system that incorporates contextual information from such sources as a parse of the simplified English Wikipedia, and systems based on Hewitt's actor model. For each system, we describe its design and evaluate its performance in simulation …
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Testing environmental education interventions related to wolverine reintroduction in Colorado
… outcomes. To do so we implemented a 2X2 factorial experimental design comparing the traditional science communication approach, or rational actor model ("control"), to a theory driven treatment combining the Constructivist Learning Model and emotional appeals using anthropomorphism …
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Designing a statically typed actor-based concurrent object-oriented programming language
… combining concurrency with inheritance. A new model of type and inheritance, called HANA, is presented. The HANA model integrates multiple inheritance, multiple representation, method exclusion, and method name overloading with static typing. The contribution of HANA is that it extends other …
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The Nuclearization of Iran: Motivations, Intentions and America's Responses
… nuclear weapons. Using Graham Allison's Rational Actor Model of national decision-making, this thesis investigates three questions: 1) Iran's motivations for obtaining nuclear weapons; 2) Iran's strategies for actual use of nuclear weapons; and, 3) alternative political frameworks for the U.S. to …
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The Conflict-Cooperation Nexus. Politicisation, Security and Domestic Institutions in EU-Russia Energy Relations
… of energy relations and to reveal factors that lead to cooperative or conflictual outcomes. So far, IR research inquiries in the field have prioritised resource and normative determinisms in addressing the success or failure of energy cooperation, which assume a geopolitical-realist …
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A class library approach to concurrent object-oriented programming with applications to VLSI CAD
… use of object-oriented design techniques and the actor model of concurrent computation. We present a multilevel approach to expressing parallelism for unstructured applications: a high-level interface based on the actor and aggregate models of concurrent object-oriented programming, and a …
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Polymorphic types for constructing concurrent objects and layered communication protocols
… usefulness in concurrent programming using the Actor model. The results of this work have direct applicability to problems in concurrent programming, distributed systems, and communication protocol architectures. An extensible, polymorphic type abstraction for structuring concurrent method …
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