This study established a list of criteria to select a first programming language. We used a literature study to create criteria for developing thinking and programming skills, student appropriate programming learning environments, new tendencies in programming, practical programming issues, affordability, training and resources, and general-purpose programming. An empirical study verified the v...

This paper presents a project that provides both, to professors and to students, a tool that is useful for studying, teaching and learning how pipelines work and how they can be scheduled in an easy and widespread way. The project is called PipeSim, and features static and dynamic pipelines with a very attractive, dynamic and intuitive interface. It is well known that pipeline and pipeline-sche...

In this paper, we describe a general purpose network simulator generation system INSPIRE (Interconnection Network Simulator with Programmable Interaction and Routing for performance Evaluation), for massively parallel processing systems. In this system, a user describes various characteristics of the target network, for instance, network resources, network topology, and routing algorithm, in a ...

A number of computational models of visual attention exist, but making comparisons is difficult due to the incompatible implementations and levels at which the simulations are conducted. To address this issue, we have developed a general-purpose neural network simulator that allows all of these models to be implemented in a unified framework. The simulator allows for the distributed execution o...

Local carrier heating and nonstationary effects in deep-submicron silicon devices can lead to substantial deviation between simulation results of classical device simulators and experimental data. A significant improvement of the physical accuracy of the simulation is achieved by adding a self-consistent solution of the carrier energy balance equation to the classical driftdiffusion set of equa...