T/ie paper describes objcctives of high-level synthesis. It concentrates on operation scheduling strategies and thc interaction with the resource allocation. Some transformational and iterative/constructive scheduling algorithms are described. Moreover, a new scheduling/alhcation approach is prcsented and compared with other known algorithms. Finally, some open problems of the high-levcl synthe...

1. Abstract Researchers in the area of educational software have always shown a great deal of interest for the automatic synthesis of learning curricula. During the recent years, with the extensive use of metadata and the emergence of the Semantic Web, this vision is gradually turning into a reality. A number of systems for curricula synthesis have been proposed. These systems are based on stro...

Ternary Reversible logic got the attention in the recent years for its applications in different sections of Reversible Logic Synthesis. Designing online testable circuits are also considered as the prominent field of research in this domain. This paper presents a novel idea of Online Testable Ternary Reversible Circuits design, where architecture is capable of testing reversible ternary networ...

Context: Comparing and contrasting evidence from multiple studies is necessary to build knowledge and reach conclusions about the empirical support for a phenomenon. Therefore, research synthesis is at the center of the scientific enterprise in the software engineering discipline. Objective: The objective of this article is to contribute to a better understanding of the challenges in synthesizi...

Do people with different kinds of bodies think differently? According to the body-specificity hypothesis (Casasanto 2009), they should. In this paper, I review evidence that rightand left-handers, who perform actions in systematically different ways, use correspondingly different areas of the brain for imagining actions and representing the meanings of action verbs. Beyond the concrete domain o...

Facial expression plays an important role in face to face communication in that it conveys nonverbal information and emotional intent beyond speech. In this paper, an approach for facial expression synthesis with an expressive Chinese talking avatar is proposed, where a layered parametric framework is designed to synthesize intermediate facial expressions using PAD emotional parameters [5], whi...

Drug design is an iterative process which begins with a compound that displays an interesting biological profile and ends with optimizing both the activity profile for the molecule and its chemical synthesis. The process is initiated when the chemist conceives a hypothesis which relates the chemical features of the molecule (or series of molecules) to the biological activity. Without a detailed...

Concatenative synthesis is currently the favoured approach to text-to-speech synthesis, yet it has fundamental limitations. In the longer-term, articulatory synthesis has much greater potential. Different approaches to articulatory synthesis are discussed in terms of the choices made concerning the articulatory processes modelled, the simplifying assumptions, and the data collected.

In this paper, we present a first approach for array-level energy estimation during high-level synthesis when mapping piecewise regular algorithms onto massively parallel full size processor arrays. Innately, piecewise regular algorithms have some power consumption friendly properties, e.g., they may be mapped onto processor arrays with only local interconnect and memory. In addition to these p...