Fast and effective exploration at the early stages of the design flow can yield significant improvement in the quality of the design and substantial reduction in design time. In this paper, we present an efficient technique to evaluate the power dissipation of scheduled Data Flow Graphs (DFGs). Scheduling dictates the compatibility of operations with respect to their assignments to functional u...

Similarity and comparability are complementary notions that are easy to confuse and difficult to tease apart. Semantic similarity makes comparison meaningful, while comparison is often the pragmatic means through which similarity is perceived and constructed. To date, WordNet has found wide application as a basis for modeling and measuring semantic similarity, but is lacking as a basis for well...

Psychological theories of subjective probability judgments assume that accumulated evidence (support) mediates the relation between the description of a to-be-judged event (hypothesis) and the judgment. To scale a probability from the support for a hypothesis, these psychological theories make a strong independence assumption. This assumption is stated in the form of the product rule, in which ...

The realization that numerous factors contribute to how individuals make judgements and respond within interview based surveys is not new (Jobe & Mingay 1989; Kahneman, Slovic & Tversky 1982). Over the past 50 years or so, investigations in the area of " respondent bias " have documented various sources of error, i.e., factors that may contribute to the difference between what is truth, what is...