The automated synthesis of application specific co-processors has been a complex and demanding problem. To handle the inherent informational and architectural complexity of this problem novel development approaches supported by powerful tools are taken. In this paper we present an approach that is based on UML and hardware/software co-design. We will show how Boolean problem solvers can be mode...

Alphabet size and informational entropy, two formal measures of sequence complexity, are herein applied to two prior studies on the folding of minimal proteins. These measures show a designed four-helix bundle to be unlike its natural counterparts but rather more like a coiled-coil dimer. Segments from a simplified sarc homology 3 domain and more than 2000000 segments from globular proteins bot...

An individual information system is an activity system in which individual persons, according to idiosyncratic needs and preferences, perform processes and activities using information, technology, and other resources to produce informational products and/or services for themselves or others. These small information systems have evolved with increasing complexity around the increasing computing...

In this paper, we show that configurational notions follow from inherent properties of informational concepts. First, we analyze the hidden complexity of the central family of configurational relations (command) from which all the others (government, proper government, etc.) are derived. We then examine the different types of grammatical information, their sources and their propagation mode. Fi...

Two different sorts of retrieval in analogical tasks, novice-like and expert-like, have been demonstrated in psychological experiments. With recent computational work in object recognition as an inspiration, we propose the computation of intermediate features, and their use as triggers for retrieval, as the relevant constraint at the informational level of characterization of the retrieval proc...