Goals and Design

Goals, Dimensions, and Design of Program Investigation

If we are keen to boost the process of language learning, we need to study every aspect and component of our course. To this end, we carry out an investigation in which every detail of the course is put under microscope. Assessment of a course is an attempt in which different type of information is gathered systematically in order to study the working of a language instruction program. Certainl...

Design Goals for ACL2

Auction Design Goals

Assume a set of n ≥ 2 agents participating in an auction for one good. We adopt the IPV model, so that each agent i ∈ N = {1, . . . , n} has value vi drawn from continuous distribution Fi, with support Ti = [v i, v i] for some v i, v i ∈ R+, which describes how much they value the good.1 We call this environment single-parameter, because 1 For simplicity, we sometimes assume symmetry, so that F...

Goals and Rules in Central Bank Design∗

Beginning with the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Act of 1989, central banking reforms have focused on assigning clear goals for which monetary policy authorities can be held accountable. Inflation targeting regimes provide examples of such goal-based policy frameworks. An alternative approach, recently argued for by John Taylor (2012, 2014), relies on a rule-based framework in which the policy au...

Goals and tradeoffs in the design

This paper describes the goals and tradeoffs in the design of the MC68881 Floating Point Coprocessor. The Motorola MC68881 is a complete implementation of the proposed IEEE floating point standard on a single VLSI chip. It is a coprocessor for the MC68020 microprocessor and is a peripheral processor for other M68000 family processors. The design of the MC68881 was guided by a set of goals. This...