When an artifact is designed the typical output consists of documents describing the final result of a long series of deliberations and tradeoffs by the participants of collaborat...
Simon’s The Sciences of the Artificial is rightly influential as a founding text in design research in the information systems field (IS). Simon’s contributions in the same vo...
This paper considers the role of performance and area estimates from behavioral synthesis in design space exploration. We have developed a compilation system that automatically ma...
In modern superscalar processors, the complex instruction scheduler could form the critical path of the pipeline stages and limit the clock cycle time. In addition, complex schedu...
The central idea behind interface-based design is to describe components by a component interface. In contrast to a component description that describes what a component does, a c...