How far can we push polymer architectures?

How far can we push chemical self-assembly?

A Routing-Aware Simulated Annealing-based Placement Method in Wireless Network on Chips

Wireless network on chip (WiNoC) is one of the promising on-chip interconnection networks for on-chip system architectures. In addition to wired links, these architectures also use wireless links. Using these wireless links makes packets reach destination nodes faster and with less power consumption. These wireless links are provided by wireless interfaces in wireless routers. The WiNoC archite...

A Preliminary Collection of Reflective Critics for Layered Agent Architectures

How can we build more robust reasoning systems? One approach is to build systems as layered agent architectures where each layer observes the activities occurring in the layers beneath, and uses knowledge about how to interpret these observations to control and debug those activities. Architectures with such ‘towers of reflection’ are uesd because it is often difficult to assure perfect operati...

Push Architectures for User Role Assignment

The basic concept of role-based access control (RBAC) is that permissions are associated with roles and users are made members of appropriate roles thereby acquiring the roles' permissions. Using RBAC to manage RBAC provides additional convenience. The administration of RBAC can be divided into three main categories namely, user-role assignment, permission-role assignment and role-role assignme...

Selective solute adsorption and partitioning around single PNIPAM chains.

Thermoresponsive polymer architectures have become integral building blocks of 'smart' functional materials in modern applications. For a large range of developments, e.g. for drug delivery or nanocatalytic carrier systems, the selective adsorption and partitioning of molecules (ligands or reactants) inside the polymeric matrix are key processes that have to be controlled and tuned for the desi...