Real-time computation: a formal definition and its applications
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Abstract
The concept of "real-time" has different meanings in the systems and theory communities. As a consequence, the currently available formal real-time models do not capture all the practically relevant aspects of such computations. We propose a new definition, and we believe that it allows a unfied treatment of all practically meaningful variants of real-time computations. Then, we use the developed formalism to model two important features of real-time algorithms, namely the presence of deadlines and the real-time arrival of input data. We also emphasize the expressive power of our model by using it to formalize aspects from the areas of real-time database systems and ad hoc networks. We offer formulations of the recognition problem for real-time database systems and the routing problem in ad hoc networks. Finally, we suggest a variant of our formalism that is suited for modeling parallel distributed real-time algorithms. We believe that the proposed formalism is a first step towards a unified and realistic complexity theory for real-time parallel computations.
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| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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