Inspired by the collective behavior of natural swarm, swarm intelligence algorithms (SIAs)
have been developed and widely used for solving optimization problems. When applied to …

Experience shows that cooperating and communicating computing systems, comprising
segregated single processors, have severe performance limitations, which cannot be …

This book presents new concepts, techniques and promising programming models for
designing software for chips with" many"(hundreds to thousands) processor cores. Given the …

The speedup is usually limited by two main laws in high-performance computing, that is, the
Amdahl's and Gustafson's laws. However, the speedup sometimes can reach far beyond the …

Theatre is an actor-based system currently implemented in Java, which enables modelling,
analysis and implementation of predictable time-dependent distributed systems like cyber …

Nearly two decades of research in the area of Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) have seen
steady progress in clarifying its theoretical foundations and regular demonstrations of its …

Keeping energy costs in budget and operating within available capacities of power
distribution and cooling systems is becoming an important requirement for High …

Using extremely large number of processing elements in computing systems leads to
unexpected phenomena, such as different efficiencies of the same system for different tasks …

Amdahl's law has been widely used by designers and researchers to get a rough estimate of
performance improvement when alternate designs and implementations are attempted. It …

Challenges in multicore processor design include meeting demands for performance,
power, and reliability. The progression towards deep submicron process technologies …