In many practical scenarios, nodes gathering at points of interest yield sizable connected components (clusters), which sometimes comprise the majority of nodes. While recent anal...
By integrating one or more (hard or soft) CPU core on the chip, new generation platform FPGAs have become configurable systems on a chip (CSoC) that support a combined software an...
Reducing power consumption has become a major challenge in the design and operation of today's computer systems. This chapter describes different techniques addressing this c...
Web service technologies are becoming increasingly important for integrating systems and services. There is much activity and interest around standardization and usage of web serv...
The importance of early performance assessment grows as software systems increase in terms of size, logical distribution and interaction complexity. Lack of time from the side of ...