Application software development for High-Performance Parallel Computing (HPC) is a non-trivial process; its complexity can be primarily attributed to the increased degrees of freedom that have to be resolved and tuned in such an environment. Performance prediction tools enable a developer to evaluate available design alternatives and can assist in HPC application software development. In this ...

Current simulation tools for reconngurable systems are based on low level simulation of application designs developed in a High-level Description Language(HDL) on HDL models of architectures. This necessitates expertise on behalf of the user to generate the low level design before performance analysis can be accomplished. Most of the current simulation tools also are based on static designs and...

This article is a slightly summarised version of an invited plenary at the 3rd Aegean Seminar which took place at the Greek island of Samos in July 1992. The original title was “An Interpretive Systemological View of the Issue: ‘Environmental Fluctuations and Cultural Change in Island Societies`.” It is an hermeneutical inquiry into the interpretive context that provides full meaning to the iss...

Field work is needed to bridge the gap which currently exists between information systems (IS) research and theory, and the practice of IS professionals in organisations. Examining how systems are developed and used, and the problems and concerns of IS professionals, provides the foundations for building understanding of IS practice. This paper examines some methodological issues raised by inte...

(2004). Using an interpretive research group to teach communication and understanding in undergraduate psychiatric/mental health nursing students. Abstract: An interpretive research group based in existential phenomenology is used to facilitate student learning about skills central to nursing-communicating, listening, and a genuine understanding of "the other"-in an undergraduate psychiatric-me...

Interpreters and just-in-time (JIT) compilers are ubiquitous in modern computer systems, making it important to have good program analyses for reasoning about such systems. Control dependence, which plays a fundamental role in a number of program analyses, is an important contender in this regard. Existing algorithms for (dynamic) control dependence analysis do not take into account some import...

Can the practice and science of medicine ever be reconciled? Several years ago, The Lancet introduced a series of occasional duets entitled, ambitiously, “science and practice.” The idea was to commission 2 writers to review a subject — for example, Parkinson’s disease, heart failure, chronic renal failure — in these constituent parts. Once the underlying biology and epidemiology were set out, ...

We summarize the investigation reported in our papers 5], 6], 7], and 8], and describe the hitherto unpublished conclusion to the project. In particular, we outline the analytic technique we developed|Layered Formalism and Zooming|and apply it to the analysis of a class of stylized documents. We also describe and use a new kind of grammar, interpretive grammar, based upon the interpretive state...