This issue of A Closer Look...may seem like somewhat of a departure for our office. Traditionally, we use the publication to spotlight progams or services that are immediately identifiable as student affairs-related activities. At first glance, academic advising just doesn’t seem to fit the mold. However, the Division of Student Affairs is closely involved with academic advising at UNCG. The Sp...

Industry standard circuit simulators use mathematical techniques that do not always guarantee a successful simulation outcome, resulting in a significant loss of productivity as the circuit designer attempts to diagnose the source of the failure. This paper addresses the problem of improving the diagnosis of circuit simulation non-convergence through computer automation of the diagnostic proces...

The paper discusses a new algorithm to assign orthologous genes between a pair of genomes using both sequence similarity and evolutionary events. Many ortholog assignment algorithms have already been developed, but most of them are based on DNA/protein sequence similarity or use a homology search algorithm. The paper divides the problem in two phases: the signed reversal distance with duplicate...

This paper describes a partial reimplementation of Doug Smith's CYPRESS algorithm design system within the Soar problem-solving architecture. The system, CYPRESS-SOAR, reproduces most of CYPRESS' behavior in the synthesis of three divide-and-conquer sorting algorithms from formal specifications. CYPRESS-Soar is based on heuristic search of problem spaces, and uses search to compensate for missi...

The results of speckle interferometric observations at the 4.1 m Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope in 2020, as well earlier unpublished data, are given, totaling 1735 measurements 1288 resolved pairs and nonresolutions 1177 targets. We for first time 59 new or subsystems known binaries, mostly among nearby dwarf stars. This work continues our long-term program. Its main goal is to monit...

Abstract The speckle interferometry program at the 4.1 m Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope (SOAR), which started in 2008, now has accumulated over 30,300 individual observations of 12,700 distinct targets. Its main goal is to monitor orbital motion close binaries, including members high-order hierarchies and low-mass dwarfs solar neighborhood. results from 2021 are published here, total...

Cognitive architectures—task-general theories of the structure and function of the complete cognitive system—are sometimes argued to be more akin to frameworks or belief systems than scientific theories. The argument stems from the apparent non-falsifiability of existing cognitive architectures. Newell was aware of this criticism and argued that architectures should be viewed not as theories su...