Boolean functions that satisfy higher order propagation criteria are studied. A complete characterization is given of the autocorrelation function and Walsh spectrum of second ord...
Instruction-set extensible processors allow an existing processor core to be extended with application-specific custom instructions. In this paper, we explore a novel application...
We prove that the weighted monotone circuit satisfiability problem has no fixed-parameter tractable approximation algorithm with constant or polylogarithmic approximation ratio un...
We continue the investigation of locally testable codes, i.e., error-correcting codes for whom membership of a given word in the code can be tested probabilistically by examining ...
The main characteristics of component models is their strict structure enabling better code reuse. Correctness of component composition is well understood formally but existing wor...