Designing building blocks for open-ended early literacy software

Guidelines for Designing Simulation Building Blocks

Instinctively, it seems better to support decision making by simulation studies carried out with domain specific simulation building blocks, than by simulation studies that start without the knowledge captured in these building blocks. However, only a limited number of project examples using simulation building blocks exist, which showed improved results as a result of the use of building block...

Building-blocks for Designing DI Circuits

abstract We show universality and minimality of sets of primitives, to construct delay-insensitive (DI) networks, which provide exibility of their use in synthesis, and eeciency in their silicon implementation. Several approaches that improve on recent designs, in the literature, of a modulo-N counter are explored. Rudiments of a general design methodology for such asynchronous circuits via a f...

On designing open-ended interpretations for collaborative design exploration

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Finding Building Blocks for Software Clustering

It is generally believed that good modularization of software leads to systems which are easier to design, develop, test, maintain and evolve [1]. Software clustering using search–based techniques has been well studied using a hill climbing approach [2,4,5,6]. Hill climbing suffers from the problem of local optima, so some improvement may be expected by by considering more sophisticated search-...

Software transactional memory building blocks