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High-level synthesis is the process of translating a high-level program like specification of the behavior of a digital circuit into a structural design in terms of interconnected set of P..egisterTransfer level components. Component selection and pipelining (CS&P) is one of the important problems in HLS. The time complexity of the exhaustive search algorithm for this problem is exponential. In...

Auditing Standards, Professional Judgement, and Audit Quality∗

This paper examines the economic consequences of tightening auditing standards. We recognize that both auditors’ incentives and expertise are relevant for audit effectiveness. On one hand, tighter auditing standards counter the misbehavior of rogue auditors. On the other hand, tighter standards restrict auditors’exercise of professional judgement, leads to auditors’compliance mentality, and red...

Proposed Framework for Reorganization of PCAOB Auditing Standards and Related Amendments to PCAOB Auditing Standards and Rules, PCAOB

We agree that the Board's existing auditing standards, consisting of sequentially numbered standards issued by the Board (the AS standards) and the AU sections representing the remaining interim standards that the Board has not superseded, present a confusing framework. While we agree that reorganization is needed and may help users navigate the standards more easily, we do not agree with the B...

Standards and Frameworks for Information System Security Auditing and Assurance

Most organizations in all sectors of industry, commerce and government are fundamentally dependent on their information systems (IS) and would quickly cease to function should the technology (preferably information technology – IT) that underpins their activities ever come to halt [15]. The IT developments may have enormous implications for the operation, structure and strategy of organizations...

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Historical Kinds and the "Special Sciences"

I do not believe there are any "special sciences" in Fodor's sense. I think that there is a large group of sciences I will call them "historical sciences" that differ fundamentally from the physical sciences because they quantify over a different kind of natural or real kind than do the physical sciences. Moreover, the laws, or better, the generalizations, that these kinds support are not excep...