Shared memory architectures have recently experienced a large increase in thread-level
parallelism, leading to complex memory hierarchies with multiple cache memory levels and …

Interleaved memories are often used to provide the high bandwidth needed by
multiprocessors and high performance uniprocessors such as vector and VLIW processors …

Abstract Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) systems offer on demand virtual infrastructures so
reliably and flexibly that users expect a high service level. Therefore, even with regards to …

The design of an Operating System (OS) scheduler is meant to allocate its resources
appropriately to all applications. In this paper, we present the scheduling techniques used …

Violations of real-time properties and high latencies have emerged as crucial issues in
autonomous vehicles since they can lead to unwanted vehicle behavior and critical …

Designing data stores for native Cloud Computing services brings a number of challenges,
especially if the Cloud Provider wants to offer database services capable of controlling the …

While workload collocation is a necessity to increase energy efficiency of contemporary multi-
core hardware, it also increases the risk of performance anomalies due to workload …

Abstract The advent of Cloud Computing and Big Data brought several changes and
innovations in the landscape of database management systems. Nowadays, a cloud-friendly …

Current buildings rely on predefined rules to control the temperature in rooms disregarding
their residents' thermal comfort. Multiple approaches have been presented in the literature to …

The goal of this work is to highlight aspects of an experiment other than the word error rate.
When a speech recognition experiment is performed, the word error rate provides no insight …