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This Appendix C to B. Parhami's CV contains a list of book and paper reviews appearing in various publications. It also includes book reviews and proposal evaluations for publishers.

C1   

Parhami, B., “Review of two books entitled Computer Appreciation and Further Computer Appreciation, by T.F. Fry”, Bulletin of the Iranian Mathematical Society, No. 7, pp. 25-31, Fall 1977 (in Persian).

C2   

Parhami, B., “Review of the book Logic Design Projects Using Standard Integrated Circuits, by J.F. Wakerly”, IEEE Computer, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 109-110, February 1978; Persian translation of this review appeared in Bulletin of the Iranian Mathematical Society, No. 10, pp. 69-72, Fall 1978 & Winter 1979.

C3   

Parhami, B., “Review of the book entitled Content Addressable Parallel Processors, by C.C. Foster”, IEEE Computer, Vol. 11, No. 4, p. 128, April 1978; reprinted, with Persian translation, in Bulletin of the Iranian Mathematical Society, No. 8, pp. 98-106, Winter 1978; reprinted in Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 66, No. 8, pp. 988-989, Aug. 1978.

C4   

Parhami, B., “Another View of TEX and METAFONT” (Review of the book entitled TEX and METAFONT: A New Direction in Typesetting, by D.E. Knuth), Bulletin of the Iranian Mathematical Society, Vol. 9, No. 1, Serial No. 16, pp. 9-11, 1981 (in Persian).

C5   

Parhami, B., “Review of the paper ‘A Method for Evaluating Network Reliability’ by A. Zabludowski”, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 1983a:90069, Review # 592113, p. 394. (Original source Bull. Acad. Polon. Sci. Ser. Sci. Tech., 27(7): 647-655, 1979).

C6   

Parhami, B., “Review of the paper ‘Fiducial Intervals for the Waiting Time in Batch and Time-Sharing Systems’ by A. Leitsch”, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 1983j:68041, Review #663981, p. 4271. (Original source Computing, 28(4): 289-303, 1982).

C7   

Parhami, B., “Review of the book New Computer Architectures, Edited by J. Tiberghien”, IEEE Computer, Vol. 19, No. 10, p. 96, October 1986.

C8   

Parhami, B., “Review of the book Parallel Sorting Algorithms, by S.G. Akl”, IEEE Computer, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 76-77, March 1987.

C9   

Parhami, B., “Review of the book Spectral Techniques and Fault Detection, Edited by M.G. Karpovsky”, IEEE Computer, Vol. 20, No. 7, p. 116, July 1987.

C10   

Parhami, B., “Review of the book Computer Engineering: Hardware Design, by M.M. Mano”, IEEE Computer, Vol. 21, No. 7, pp. 109-110, July 1988.

C11   

Parhami, B., “Review of the book Memory Storage Patterns in Parallel Processing, by M.A. Mace”, Computer Architecture News (ACM SIGARCH), Vol. 16, No. 5, p. 76, December 1988.

C12   

Parhami, B., “Review of the book Advanced Research in VLSI, Edited by C.L. Seitz”, Computer Architecture News (ACM SIGARCH), Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 122-123, March 1990.

C13   

Parhami, B., “Review of the paper ‘A New Algorithm for Scheduling Periodic Real-Time Tasks’ by J. Y.-T. Leung”, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 1990k:68017, Review #988726, p. 6640. (Original source Algorithmica, 4(2):209-219, 1989).

C14   

Parhami, B., “Review of the paper ‘Analysis and Design of Fault-Tolerant Capability of Single-Stage Interconnection Network RMISE’ by J.-Z. Zhang”, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 1991d:68002, Review #1050032, p. 2218. (Original source Science in China, Ser. A 32(4):504-512, 1989).

C15   

Parhami, B., “Review of the book Computer Arithmetic Algorithms, by I. Koren”, for Prentice-Hall College Division, December 1991. (Published 1993).

C16   

Parhami, B., “Review of the book Network Reliability and Algebraic Structures, by D.R. Shier (Oxford, 1991, ISBN 0-19-853386-1)”, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 1992j:68008, Review #1122812, p. 5721.

C17   

Parhami, B., “Review of the paper ‘On Circuits and Numbers’, by J.E. Vuillemin”, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 1995i:68005, Review #1294299. (Original source IEEE Trans. Computers, 43(8): 868-879, 1994).

C18   

Parhami, B., “Review of a proposal for the book Principles of Digital Systems, by J.W. Smith”, for Addison-Wesley, December 1995.

C19   

Parhami, B., “Review of the paper ‘A Method for Constructing Selection Networks with O(log n) Depth’, by S. Jimbo and A. Maruoka”, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 1997d:68057, Review #1400394. (Original source SIAM J. Comput., 25(4): 709-739, 1996).

C20   

Parhami, B., “Review of the paper ‘Sorting on a Parallel Pointer Machine with Applications to Set Expression Evaluation’, by M.T. Goodrich and S.R. Kosaraju”, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 1997f:68054, Review #1408325. (Original source J. ACM, 43(2): 331-361, 1996).

C21   

Parhami, B., “Review of the paper ‘The Mathematics of the Pentium Division Bug’, by A. Edleman”, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 1998a:68009, Review #1439485. (Original source SIAM Rev., 39(1): 54-67, 1997).

C22   

Parhami, B., “Review of the paper ‘Testing Shared Memories’, by P.B. Gibbons and E. Korach”, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 1998g:68013, Review #1460722. (Original source SIAM J. Computing, 26(4): 1209-1244, 1997).

C23   

Parhami, B., “Review of the paper ‘Simulating Shared Memory in Real Time: On the Computation Power of Reconfigurable Architectures’, by A. Czumaj, F. Meyer auf der Heide, and V. Stemann”, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 1998h:68069, Review #1468879. (Original source Inform. and Comput., 137(2): 103-120, 1997).

C24   

Parhami, B., “Review of the paper ‘On Probabilistic Networks for Selection, Merging, and Sorting’, by T. Leighton, Y. Ma, and T. Suel”, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 1998i:68087, Review #1465016. (Original source Theory Comput. Syst., 30(6): 559-582, 1997).

C25   

Parhami, B., “Review of the book Fault-Tolerant Parallel Computation, by P.C. Kanellakis and A.A. Shvartsman (Kluwer, 1997, ISBN 0-7923-9922-6)”, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 1998m:68072, Review #1492988.

C26   

Parhami, B., “Review of the paper ‘Computing with Time-Varying Data: Sequential Complexity and Parallel Speed-Up’, by F. Luccio and L. Pagli”, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 1999c:68111, Review #1488390. (Original source Theory of Computing Systems, 31(1): 5-26, 1998).

C27   

Parhami, B., “Review of the paper ‘Sorting in Parallel’, by R. Libeskind-Hadas”, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 1999d:68056, Review #1625564. (Original source Amer. Math. Monthly, 105(3): 238-245, 1998).

C28   

Parhami, B., “Review of the paper ‘Fault-Tolerant Wait-Free Shared Objects’, by P. Jayanti, T.D. Chandra, and S. Toueg”, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 1999g:68010, Review #1639342. (Original source J. ACM, 45(3): 451-500, 1998).

C29   

Parhami, B., “Review of the paper ‘On the Minimum Number of Processors for Scheduling Problems with Communication Delays’, by A. Moukrim”, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 2000a:90026, Review #1683462. (Original source Ann. Oper. Res., 86: 455-472, 1999).

C30   

Parhami, B., “Review of the paper ‘Highly Parallel Fast Scaling of Numbers in Nonredundant Residue Arithmetic’, by Z.D. Ulman and M. Czyzak”, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 2000c:94006, Review #1664521. (Original source IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, 46(2): 487-496, 1998).

C31   

Parhami, B., “Review of the paper ‘Modeling Parallel Bandwidth: Local versus Global Restrictions’, by M. Adler, P.B. Gibbons, Y. Matias, and V. Ramachandran”, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 2000d:68164, Review #1687267. (Original source Algorithmica, 24(3-4): 381-404, 1999).

C32 Parhami, B., “Review of the paper ‘Threshold Data Structures and Coding Theory’, by E. Bach and M. Kiwi”, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 2001e:68037, Review #1765962. (Original source Theoretical Computer Science, 235(1): 3-23, 2000).
C33 Parhami, B., “Review of the book Timing Analysis and Optimization of Sequential Circuits, by N. Maheshwari and S.S. Sapatnekar (Kluwer, 1999, ISBN 0-7923-8321-4)”, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 2001j:68151, Review #1788049. 
C34 Parhami, B., “Review of the paper ‘Computations of Uniform Recurrence Equations Using Minimal Memory Size’, by B. Gaujal, A. Jean-Marie, and J. Mairesse”, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 2002b:68010, Review #1814209. (Original source SIAM J. Computation, 30(5):1701-1738, 2000).
C35 Parhami, B., “Review of a proposal for the book A Parallel Algorithm Synthesis Procedure for High-Performance Computer Architectures, by I.N. Dunn and G.G.L. Meyer”, for Kluwer Academic, May 2002.  
C36 Parhami, B., “Review of the paper ‘Tree Search on an Atomic Model for Message Passing’, by P. Liu, W. Aiello, and S. Bhatt”, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 2002g:68159, Review #1857390. (Original source SIAM J. Computation, 31(1):67-85, 2001).
C37 Parhami, B., “Review of the paper ‘Periodification Scheme: Constructing Sorting Networks with Constant Period’, by M. Kutylowski, K. Lorys, B. Oesterdiekhoff, and R. Wanka”, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 2002i:68034, Review #1865935. (Original source J. ACM, 47(5):944-967, Sep. 2000).
C38 Parhami, B., “Review of the paper ‘Abstract Parallel Machines’, by J. O’Donnell and G. Runger”, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 2002j:68031, Review #1783680. (Original source Computers and Artificial Intelligence, 19:105-129, 2000).
C39 Parhami, B., “Review of the paper ‘Sorting and Counting Networks of Arbitrary Width and Small Depth’, by C. Busch and M. Herlihy”, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 2003b:68039, Review #1891427. (Original source Theory Comput. Systems, 35(2):99-128, 2002).
C40 Parhami, B., “Review of the paper ‘Black-Box Correctness Tests for Basic Parallel Data Structures, by P.B. Gibbons, J.L. Bruno, and S. Phillips, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 2003d:68047, Review #1909044. (Original source Theory Comput. Systems, 35(4):391-432, 2002).
C41 Parhami, B., “Review of the paper ‘Fast Concurrent Access to Parallel Disks, by P. Sanders, S. Egner, and J. Korst, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 2003h:68033, Review #1938242 (Original source Algorithmica, 35(1):21-55, 2003).
C42 Parhami, B., “Review of the paper ‘Parallel Integer Sorting Is More Efficient than Parallel Comparison Sorting on Exclusive Write PRAMS, by Y. Han and X. Shen, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 2003m:68033, Review #1954881. (Original source SIAM J. Comput., 31(6):1852-1878, 2002).
C43 Parhami, B., Review of the paper Generalized Honeycomb Torus, by H.-J. Cho and L.-Y. Hsu, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 2004c:68007, Review #1974308. (Original source Info. Processing Letters, 86(4):185-190, 2003).
C44 Parhami, B., Review of the paper ‘Foundations for Applications of Gibbs Derivatives in Logic Design and VLSI’, by R.S. Stankovic, M. Stankovic, and R. Creutzburg, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 2004i:94073, Review #1993178. (Original source VLSI Design, 14(1):65-81, 2002).
C45 Parhami, B., Review of the paper ‘Ordinal Scheduling Problem and Its Asymptotically Optimal Algorithms on Parallel Machine System’, by Z. Tan and Y. He, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 2005c:90033, Review #2075217. (Original source Science in China, Ser. F: Information Sciences, 47(2):161-169, 2004).
C46 Parhami, B., Review of the paper ‘Online Scheduling of a Single Machine to Minimize Total Weighted Computation Time’, by E.J. Anderson and C.N. Potts, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 2005d:90043, Review #2082624. (Original source Mathematics of Operations Research, 29(3):686-697, 2004).
C47 Parhami, B., Review of the paper ‘Real-Time Scheduling with a Budget’, by J. Naor, H. Shachnai, and T. Tamir, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 2005e:90041, Review #2080769. (Original source Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Proc. ICALP), Vol. 2719, pp. 1123-1137, 2003).
C48 Parhami, B., Review of the paper ‘Detecting a Network Failure’, by J. Kleinberg, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 2005e:94312, Review #2076726.  (Original source Internet Mathematics, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 37-55, 2003).
C49 Parhami, B., Review of the paper ‘(Incremental) Priority Algorithms’, by A. Borodin, M.N. Nielsen, and C. Rackoff”, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 2005f:90044, Review #2010093.  (Original source Algorithmica, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 295-326, 2003).
C50 Parhami, B., Review of the paper ‘A Parametric Error Analysis of Goldschmidt's Division Algorithm’, by G. Even, P.-M. Seidel, and W.E. Ferguson”, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 2005h:68187, Review #2102066.  (Original source J. Computer and System Sciences, Vol. 70, No. 1, pp. 118-139, 2005).
C51 Parhami, B., Review of the book Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener, the Father of Cybernetics, Mathematical Reviews, Vol. 2005i:01008, Review #2105723 (original source authored by F. Conway and J. Siegelman, Basic Books, xvi + 423 pp., 2005, ISBN 0-7382-0368-8).
C52 Parhami, B., Review of the paper ‘On Sequential Diagnosis of Multiprocessor Systems’, by T. Yamada, T. Ohtsuka, A. Watanabe, and S. Ueno, Mathematical Reviews, To appear, Review #2115152.  (Original source Discrete and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 146, No. 3, pp. 311-342, 2005).
C53 Parhami, B., Review of the paper ‘Optimal Read-Once Parallel Disk Scheduling’, by M. Kallahalla and P.J. Varman, Mathematical Reviews, To appear, Review #2184149.  (Original source Algorithmica, Vol. 43, No. 4, pp. 309-343, 2005).

      

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