Reconfigurable devices, such as FPGAs, introduce into the design workflow of embedded systems a new degree of freedom: the designer can have the system autonomously modify the fun...
Carlo Amicucci, Fabrizio Ferrandi, Marco D. Santam...
— Java, a popular programming language on desktop systems, is rarely used in embedded systems. Some features of Java, like thread support in the language, could greatly simplify ...
The trend in workstation hardware is towards symmetric shared-memory multiprocessors (SMPs). User expectations are for (largely) automatic exploitation of parallelismon an SMP, si...
The problem of eciently retrieving and ranking documents from a huge collection according to their relevance to a research topic is addressed. A broad class of queries is dened a...
Recently-developed techniques have improved the performance of production systems several times over. However, these techniques are not yet adequate for continuous problem solving...