Network-on-chip (NoC) is deemed to be a paradigm to tackle design challenges in the billion transistor era. A NoC provides a reusable platform for integrating heterogeneous resources. This report discusses application design on NoC. We propose Network-on-Chip Assembler Language (NoC-AL) that serves an interface between NoC implementations and applications, very similar to the instruction set of...

Learning styles are more and more incorporated in technology enhanced learning and a lot of research work is done in this area. For example, systems are developed which provide adaptivity according to the learning styles of students; relationships to students’ performance and other characteristics of students such as cognitive traits are investigated, and techniques are designed to derive the l...

Research Paper Purpose Drawing from S-D logic this paper builds on the proposition of customers as resource integrators, identifying six styles of customer co-creation, and linking customer cocreation styles to outcomes. Design/methodology/approach A theoretical framework is proposed linking customer co-creation styles to outcomes. The research is based on twenty in-depth interviews and four fo...

This study analyzed the effects of two heterogeneous cooperative groupings’ blended learning on programming design learning achievements and attitudes. To achieve the above objective, this study used a quasi-experimental design to conduct the experiment. Additionally, the research instruments used in this study included: Thinking Styles Inventory, cognitive style scale, programming design learn...

The psychometric properties of the 64-item Self-Report Psychopathy Scale-III (SRP-III) and its abbreviated 28-item SRP-Short Form (SRP-SF) seem promising. Still, cross-cultural evidence for its construct validity in heterogeneous community samples remains relatively scarce. Moreover, little is known about the interchangeability of both instruments. The present study addresses these research gap...

In a large modern enterprise, it is almost inevitable that different parts of the organization will use different systems to produce, store, and search their critical data. Yet, it is only by combining the information from these various systems that the enterprise can realize the full value of the data they contain. Database federation is one approach to data integration in which middleware, co...

MAS research pushes the notion of openness related to systems combining heterogeneous computational entities. Typically, those entities answer to different purposes and functions and their integration is a crucial issue. Starting from a comprehensive approach in developing agents, organizations and environments, this paper devises an integrated approach and describes a unifying programming mode...

Research into software architectures has traditionally addressed architecture description languages and architectural styles. The industrial focus is on middleware-based approaches to software architecture. Middleware is layered between applications and network operating systems and aims to resolve heterogeneity and distribution in a transparent way. We present an architectural style that integ...

The concept of cognitive styles is frequently applied in the field of educational systems research (Chou, Chan & Lin, 2003). Roberts and Newton (2001) suggested that although the concept of cognitive styles is a useful starting point, it is unable to account for many finds in the literature, and that any model of strategy usage that is reduced itself to mechanisms governing strategy selection i...

Light and darkness are the main time cues synchronising all biological clocks to the external environment. This little understood evolutionary phenomenon is called circadian entrainment. A new study illuminates our understanding of how modern light- and lifestyles compromise circadian entrainment and impact our biological clocks.