Programming, Games and Transportation Networks
Programming, Games and Transportation Networks
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10.1093/comjnl/9.2.166
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1966-08
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K. Haley
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K. Haley
Book Reviews {Continued from p. 143) definition to indicate an empty set, the symbol having previously been widely used as a functional operator. Volume II is the more valuable of the two providing, as it does, the first unification in book form of important developments in the analysis and synthesis of sequential machines which have appeared during the past ten years. The wellknown Moore-Mealy model is explained in Chapter 6 (numbering continued from Vol. I) and used thereafter as a basis for discussion of state minimization techniques in Chapter 7, and state assignment in Chapter 8. Minimization techniques described are based upon the work of Mealy, Unger and Paull and also upon the author's own publications, whilst the chapter on assignment shows first how combinational logical expressions are obtained from a given assignment, continues with an elementary rule-of-thumb assignment method, and finishes with descriptions of the state-partition approach of Hartmanis and, more briefly, the mapping method of Armstrong. Chapters 9 and 10 deal with asynchronous and speedindependent circuits, respectively, including a fairly full discussion of the principal hazards encountered and how to deal with them.The partition theory of Hartmanis for state assignment is an indirect approach to the choice of efficient assignments, and Dr. Miller's very few words (page 112) on the motive for partitioning (reduced dependence) give no suggestion of the doubts which exist about the likelihood of achieving nearoptimum designs of complex machines by this method. The more direct approach of Armstrong has the advantage, again not clearly indicated by the author, of providing programmable algorithms, a virtual necessity when dealing with multistate machines.