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Fiction. Latin/Latina Studies. In Havana, Cuba, a beautiful young
woman rides a bicycle through the city streets to lure men in to
her services. Desperate to escape her dead-end life in a city
plagued with scarcity, the luscious bicyclist designs a
get-rich-quick scheme with a gorgeous John from Canada. A web of
deception is weaved and then disastrously unraveled. Daniel
Chavarra has long been recognized as one of Latin America's finest
writers. Now he again proves why with ADIOS MUCHACHOS, a comic
mystery peopled by a delightfully mad band of miscreants, all of
them led by a woman you will not soon forget Alicia, the loveliest
bicycle whore in all Havana.
Graph representations are pervasive in scientific and social
computing. They serve as vital tools to model the interplay between
different interacting entities. This monograph delves into the
problem of community detection, which is one of the most widely
used graph operations toward scientific discovery. Community
detection refers to the process of identifying tightly-knit
subgroups of vertices in a large graph. These sub-groups (or
communities) represent vertices that are tied together through
common structure or function. Identification of communities could
help in understanding the modular organization of complex networks.
However, owing to large data sizes and high computational costs,
performing community detection at scale has become increasingly
challenging. This monograph presents a detailed review and analysis
of some of the leading computational methods and implementations
developed for executing community detection on modern day multicore
and manycore architectures. The intention is to: a) define the
problem of community detection and highlight its scientific
significance; b) relate to challenges in parallelizing the
operation on modern day architectures; c) provide a detailed report
and logical organization of the approaches that have been designed
for various architectures; and d) provide insights into the
strengths and suitability of different architectures for community
detection, and a preview into the future trends of the area. While
the focus is on community detection, the challenges, and techniques
to overcome the challenges, transcend to several other graph
problems that have applications in science and data analytics.
The stories gathered in this anthology reflect the many complex
challenges Havana's citizens have had to endure as a result of
their country's political isolation - from the hardships of the
'Special Period', to the pitfalls of Cuba's schizophrenic currency
system, to the indignities of becoming a cheap tourist destination
for well-heeled Westerners. Moving through various moments in its
recent history, as well as through different neighbourhoods - from
the prefab, Soviet-era maze of Alamar, to the bars and nightclubs
of the Malecon and Vedado - these stories also demonstrate the
defiance of Havana: surviving decades of economic disappointment
with a flair for the comic, the surreal and the fantastical that
remains as fresh as the first dreams of revolution. Translated from
the Spanish by Orsola Casagrande and Seamas Carraher.
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