The paper analyzed here presents two novel techniques for reducing energy consumption, based on Razor DVS, a global voltage scaling scheme. The new techniques involve local (per-pipeline-stage) voltage scaling and time borrowing to improve pipeline balance. The finer granularity control offered by these local techniques significantly improves power consumption reduction when compared to Razor D...

Occam's Razor states that, all other things being equal, the simpler of two possible hypotheses is to be preferred. A quanti ed version of Occam's Razor has been proven for the PAC model of learning, giving sample-complexity bounds for learning using what Blumer et al. call an Occam algorithm [1]. We prove an analog of this result for Haussler's more general learning model, which encompasses le...

This paper presents new experimental evidence against the utility of Occam's razor. A systematic procedure is presented for post-processing decision trees produced by C4.5. This procedure was derived by rejecting Occam's razor and instead attending to the assumption that similar objects are likely to belong to the same class. It increases a decision tree's complexity without altering the perfor...

the effect of axial deformation of shell particles on the dynamic instability (flutter) of cantilevered cylindrical shells made of functionally graded materials (fgm) under an end axial follower force is addressed. to this end, at first, results for free vibration of fgm cylindrical shells were verified with previous outcomes and they were in very good agreement. then, the effect of axial defor...

Razor is a model-finder for first-order theories presented geometric form; geometric logic is a variant of first-order logic that focuses on “observable” properties. An important guiding principle of Razor is that it be accessible to users who are not necessarily expert in formal methods; application areas include software design, analysis of security protocols and policies, and configuration m...

Multiprecision (MP) reconfigurable multiplier that incorporates variable precision, parallel processing (PP), razor-based dynamic voltage scaling (DVS), and dedicated MP operands scheduling to provide optimum performance for a variety of operating conditions. All the building blocks of the proposed reconfigurable multiplier can either work as independent smallerprecision multipliers or work in ...

Internal transcribed spacer 1 and 2 (ITS1 and ITS2) sequences were analysed in Ensis razor shells (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pharidae). We aimed to (1) test ITS1 and ITS2 as molecular markers at the population level in the successful alien E. directus (Conrad, 1843); (2) test these spacers at the species level in E. directus and three other Ensis species, E. siliqua (L., 1758), E. macha (Molina, 1782...