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GreenRT: A Framework for the Design of Power-Aware Soft Real-Time Applications
May 26, 2008, 12:00am PDT
While soft real-time applications must run quickly enough to meet the deadline, there is usually no extra benefit from running more quickly than that. This property provides the opportunity for...
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Scheduling on Heterogeneous Multicore Processors Using Architectural Signatures
May 26, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Heterogeneous multi-core architectures promise greater energy/area efficiency than their homogeneous counterparts. This efficiency can only be realized, however, if the operating system assigns...
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Cascade: A Parallel Programming Framework for Video Game Engines
May 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The Cascade Parallel Processing Framework (PPF) is a user level library that facilitates manual parallelization of complex C++ systems. In Cascade, processing duties of the system are enclosed in...
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Cypress: A Scheduling Infrastructure for a Many-Core Hypervisor
May 13, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors present their vision for the scheduling infrastructure in a many-core hypervisor - the hypervisor targeted for many-core platforms. The key objectives of their system...
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Performance Implications of Cache Affinity on Multicore Processors
June 2, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Cache affinity between a process and a processor is observed when the processor cache has accumulated some amount of the process state, i.e., data or instructions. Cache affinity is exploited by...
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Predicate Abstraction With Adjustable-Block Encoding
May 16, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Several successful software model checkers are based on a technique called Single-Block Encoding (SBE), which computes costly predicate abstractions after every single program operation....
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Developing Semantically-Enabled Families of Method-oriented Architectures
January 4, 2012, 12:00am PST
Method Engineering (ME) has emerged with the aim of improving software development methods by creating and proposing adaptation frameworks whereby methods are created to provide suitable matches...
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Automated Planning for Feature Model Configuration Based on Functional and Non-Functional Requirements
February 28, 2012, 12:00am PST
Feature modeling is one of the main techniques used in Software Product Line Engineering to manage the variability within the products of a family. Concrete products of the family can be generated...
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A Quality Aggregation Model for Service-Oriented Software Product Lines Based on Variability and Composition Patterns
August 6, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Quality evaluation is a challenging task in monolithic software systems, and is even more complex when it comes to Service-Oriented Software Product Lines (SOSPL), as it needs to analyze the...
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Bringing Semantics to Feature Models With SAFMDL
June 6, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Software product line engineering is a paradigm that advocates the reusability of software engineering assets and the rapid development of new applications for a target domain. These objectives...
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Automated Planning for Feature Model Configuration Based on Stakeholders' Business Concerns
October 5, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In Software Product Line Engineering, concrete products of a family can be generated through a configuration process over a feature model. The configuration process selects features from the...
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Developing Families of Method-Oriented Architecture
October 22, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The method engineering paradigm is motivated by the need for software development methods suitable for specific situations and requirements of organizations in general and projects in particular....
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EleSense: Elevator-Assisted Wireless Sensor Data Collection for High-Rise Structure Monitoring
January 10, 2012, 12:00am PST
Wireless sensor networks have been widely suggested to be used in Cyber-Physical Systems for Structural Health Monitoring. However, for nowadays high-rise structures (e.g., the Guangzhou New TV...
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Probabilistic Field Coverage Using a Hybrid Network of Static and Mobile Sensors
June 22, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Providing field coverage is a key issue in many sensor network applications. For a field with unevenly distributed static sensors, quality coverage with acceptable network lifetime is often...
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Cross-Layer Optimization of Video Streaming in Single-Hop Wireless Networks
October 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Video streaming over wireless networks is getting very popular because of the high bandwidth and the support of quality of service offered by recent wireless standards, such as IEEE 802.11e. The...
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Bounding Switching Delay in Mobile TV Broadcast Networks
October 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Since mobile devices are battery-powered, several mobile TV standards dictate using energy saving schemes to increase the viewing time on mobile devices. The most common scheme for saving energy...
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Streaming Scalable Video Over WiMAX Networks
April 29, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Broadcasting multiple scalable video streams over wireless broadband access networks in real time is a challenging problem, because of the limited channel capacity and variable bit rate of the...
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Empirical Analysis of Multi-Sender Segment Transmission Algorithms in Peer-to-Peer Streaming
September 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors study and analyze segment transmission scheduling algorithms in swarm-based Peer-To-Peer (P2P) streaming systems. These scheduling algorithms are responsible for coordinating the...
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A Probabilistic Coverage Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
August 17, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors propose a new Probabilistic Coverage Protocol (denoted by PCP) that considers probabilistic sensing models. PCP is fairly general and can be used with different sensing models. In...
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An Empirical Comparison Of Convertible Bond Valuation Models
September 15, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper empirically compares three convertible bond valuation models. The authors use an innovative approach where all model parameters are estimated by the Marquardt algorithm using a...
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Understanding the Characteristics of Internet Short Video Sharing: YouTube as a Case Study
July 25, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Established in 2005, YouTube has become the most successful Internet site providing a new generation of short video sharing service. Today, YouTube alone comprises approximately 20% of all HTTP...
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Software Model Checking Via Large-Block Encoding
April 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The construction and analysis of an Abstract Reachability Tree (ART) are the basis for a successful method for software verification. The ART represents unwindings of the control-flow graph of the...
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CPAchecker: A Tool for Configurable Software Verification
January 30, 2009, 12:00am PST
Configurable software verification is a recent concept for expressing different program analysis and model checking approaches in one single formalism. This paper presents CPAchecker, a tool and...
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Energy Efficient Randomised Communication in Unknown AdHoc Networks
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper studies broadcasting and gossiping algorithms in random and general AdHoc networks. The authors goal is not only to minimise the broadcasting and gossiping time, but also to minimise...
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CEO Overconfidence And Bank Risk Taking
July 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Recent studies document that executives tend to be overconfident. That is, they believe that they have more precise knowledge about future events than they actually have. In this paper, the...
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Say "Yes" to Dumb Operating Systems and Smart Applications
January 11, 2008, 12:00am PST
The advent of Chip Multiprocessors (CMP) has spurred research on new OS scheduling algorithms that enable applications to make the most out of CMP systems. While many of these algorithms are very...
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Streaming Video Content Over IEEE 802.16/WiMAX Broadband Access
August 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) embodies the IEEE 802.16 family of standards that provide wireless broadband access to residential and commercial Internet subscribers....
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A Spamicity Approach to Web Spam Detection
January 23, 2008, 12:00am PST
Web spam which refers to any deliberate actions bringing to selected web pages an unjustifiable favorable relevance or importance is one of the major obstacles for high quality information...
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