The need for two-phase logic design is driven by marketing requirements to provide the most silicon efficient implementation of digital VLSI circuits. This has led to an industry wide development of more area efficient techniques that represent a departure from the traditional edgetriggered state machine methodology. In the past these techniques have been largely adhoc. However, we have develop...

Our hospital led a multidisciplinary community team to improve the quality of care delivered to HIV-infected clients utilizing a disease management approach in a US metropolitan community of 150,000 people. Community needs assessment and client and community surveys were used to define the problems. Patient care flowcharting and the creation of an electronic patient database facilitated patient...

We present 12-years teaching experience on Artificial Intelligence using Lego RCX, NXT, and EV3 Robotics platforms for both undergraduate and graduate classes at Western Washington University. We present the curriculum design, methods used, and outcomes of this kind of teaching. We discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using Lego. We suggest using a systematic method to raise the quality ...

In logic, representation of a domain (e.g., physical reality) comprises the things its expressions (formulas) refer to and their relationships. Recent research has examined the realm of nonsymbolic representations, especially diagrams. It is claimed that, in general, diagrams have advantages over linguistic descriptions. Current diagrammatic representations of logic formulas do not completely d...

A major problem in software maintenance is the lack of a well-documented source code in software applications. This has led to serious difficulties in software maintenance and evolution. In particular, for those developers who are faced with the task of fixing or modifying a piece of code they never even knew existed before. Database triggers and procedures are parts of almost every application...