T his special issue of Computer is about recent efforts to produce T hardware and software architectures that support artificial intelligence (Al) applications. The earliest computer design to support Al processing was the implementation of Lisp on the PDP-6 computer and its successors, the PDP-10 and PDP-20, all made by the Digital Equipment Corporation. The half-word instructions and the stac...

This paper aims at closing the gap between early phases (e.g. design) and later phases (e.g. procurement or production) of the Product Development Process (PDP) by proposing a Virtual Product Model (VPM) as a collection of individual components (VPMCs) without the need for a static structure. Based on an analysis of the requirements on product development in the automotive industry, the main pr...

Provable data possession (PDP) is a technique for ensuring the integrity of data in storage outsourcing. In this paper, we address the construction of an efficient PDP scheme for distributed cloud storage to support the scalability of service and data migration, in which we consider the existence of multiple cloud service providers to cooperatively store and maintain the clients’ data. We prese...

This paper presents a method to Designing Ripple Carry Adder using CMOS Full-Adders for Energy-Efficient Arithmetic Applications. We present two high-speed and low-power full-adder cells de-signed with an alternative internal logic structure and pass-transistor logic styles that lead to have a reduced powerdelay product (PDP). We carried out a comparison against other full-adders reported as ha...

This paper present new energy efficient methods of designing switches and routing interconnects inside FPGA using novel variants of Dynamic Threshold MOS (DTMOS) instead of traditional NMOS pass transistor based switches and interconnects. The extra needed transistors can be easily shared, in multiplexer based routing architecture of FPGA, keeping area overhead to be minimum. Extensive transist...

The neuropsychological evaluation of memory by traditional tests raises questions about their ecological validity, as the results on these tests often have little relation to the memory complaints. In an attempt to explain this lack of relationship, the present study had two objectives: (1) explore the ecological superiority of the Process Dissociation Procedure (PDP) over traditional memory te...

Provable data possession (PDP) is a technique for ensuring the integrity of data in storage outsourcing. In this paper, we address the construction of an efficient PDP scheme for distributed cloud storage to support the scalability of service and data migration, in which we consider the existence of multiple cloud service providers to cooperatively store and maintain the clients’ data. We prese...

The electrochemical and optical properties of films prepared from two different Fe(II) coordination polymers (TPT[Fe(II)TPT](n)(PF(6))(2)(n) (TPT = terpyridine-phenyl-terpyridine) and CTPCT[Fe(II)CTPCT](n)(PF(6))(2)(n) (CTPCT = chiral terpyridine-phenyl-chiral terpyridine)) and a coordination polymer based on Cu(I) metal centers (PDP[Cu(I)PDP](n)(BF(4))(n)) (PDP = phenanthroline-dodecane-phenan...

O Processo de Desenvolvimento Produtos (PDP) ocorre e depende uma série etapas integradas, incorporando diversas tecnologias adequando-se aos padrões produção. Nesse sentido, a utilização ferramentas do Lean pode auxiliar melhorar continuamente os processos forma sistemática, garantindo que todos esses realmente agreguem valor ao produto. Aliado isso, implementação da Indústria 4.0 no aperfeiço...

In the current economic climate, law enforcement agencies are facing resource shortages. The e ective and e cient use of scarce resources is therefore of the utmost importance to provide a high standard public safety service. Optimization models speci cally tailored to the necessity of police agencies can help to ameliorate their use. The Multi-Criteria Police Districting Problem (MC-PDP) conce...