Towards a Theory of Local and Global in Computation

We formulate the rudiments of a method for assessing the difficulty of dividing a computational problem into "independent simpler parts." This work illustrates measures of complexity which attempt to capture the distinction between "local" and "global" computation...

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Main Author: Abelson, Harold
Language:en_US
Published: 2004
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5743