Garbage Collection in n-dimensional Associative Memory

Piumarta argues the primary practical challenge is storage management: when any key becomes unreachable, all values indexed by that key must be deleted, requiring cooperation between primitive mechanism and garbage collector.

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An association-based model of dynamic behaviour

(2011) · Piumarta, Ian

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