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Hardware (B)
Using implications to choose tests through suspect fault identification
: ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems
Building upon previous work that used login implications to improve the reliability of digital circuits in detecting online faults, this paper adds...
Reliability & Testing (B.6.2) | Apr 25 13
The application of FPGA-based discrete wavelet transform system in EEG analysis
: ISDEA 12
In this paper, a distributed modular version of the Mallat algorithm is used as the finite impulse response (FIR) filter module of a field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based discrete wavelet transform...
Gate Arrays (B.7.1...) | May 6 13
Computer Systems Organization (C)
Limits of region-based dynamic binary parallelization
: VEE 13
Parallel computation is everywhere, from small portable devices to laptops, desktops, and data centers. This wealth of available parallelism challenges computer scientists and developers alike to...
Parallel Architectures (C.1.4) | May 17 13
On the lifetime of node-to-node communication in wireless ad hoc networks
: Computer Networks
Wireless networks are prone to failures due to the dynamic channel conditions and limited battery power of participating nodes. Therefore, the ability to predict the lifetime of...
Wireless Communication (C.2.1...) | Apr 25 13
Secure routing in MANETs using local times
: Wireless Networks
This well-written paper introduces secure time-ordered routing (STOP), a new secure protocol for mobile ad hoc network (MANET) routing that makes use of relative transmission times. The authors’...
Routing Protocols (C.2.2...) | May 20 13
The XtreemOS resource selection service
: ACM Transactions on Autonomous & Adaptive Systems
This paper presents a resource selection approach in large-scale distributed systems. The approach is decentralized and self-adapting, and aims to address scalability and resiliency in the...
Distributed Systems (C.2.4) | Apr 26 13
Optimization of task allocation and priority assignment in hard real-time distributed systems
: ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems
Zhu et al. study the problem of assigning tasks and signals in an automotive environment, specifically, a vehicle consisting of sensors, actuators, and...
Special-Purpose & App.-Based Sys. (C.3) | Apr 29 13
Understanding the impact of video quality on user engagement
: Communications of the ACM
Dobrian et al. present a prime example of thorough, concise, well-thought-out research on a very relevant technology. The article reports on a study of the relationship between user engagement and...
Measurement Techniques (C.4...) | Apr 25 13
Software (D)
Application task and data placement in embedded many-core NUMA architectures
: ODES 13
This paper proposes efficient ways of implementing dynamic task and data placement for embedded many-core systems containing different memory hierarchies. Through a series of micro...
Parallel Programming (D.1.3...) | Apr 19 13
Graph-based software design for managing complexity and enabling concurrency in multiphysics PDE software
: ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software
The field of complex computational modeling involves the use of advanced hardware and software environments, and the issues faced in...
Software Architectures (D.2.11) | May 9 13
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Computer Systems Organization (C)
Privacy and security for cloud computing
Cloud computing is a new phenomenon with enormous potential that is changing the way enterprises function. However, to achieve its potential, issues related to privacy, security, and trust must be satisfactorily...
Cloud Computing (C.2.4...) | May 17 13
Taken for grantedness: the embedding of mobile communication into society
Ling has written a book that is an informative and reader-friendly mixture of history and sociology. About a third of the text addresses the clock and automobile, with the remainder focused on the mobile...
Portable Devices (C.5.3...) | Apr 25 13
Software (D)
Beginning HTML5 and CSS3: the web evolved
This book is about two related technologies: Hypertext Markup Language 5 (HTML5) and the latest standard for cascading style sheets (CSS3). It gives a good overview of these two standards and the new features they provide. To read this book, the reader...
General (D.0) | Apr 19 13
CUDA programming: a developer’s guide to parallel computing with GPUs
The solving of general-purpose problems on graphics processing units and the CUDA parallel platform are relatively new in the computing field, and good textbooks are needed to introduce programmers to this...
Parallel Programming (D.1.3...) | Apr 25 13
Secure and resilient software: requirements, test cases, and testing methods
Nobel laureate James D. Watson exhorts you to “read around your subject” [1]; for what it’s worth, so do I. Despite my experience as a specialist in safety-critical software, I nevertheless read, enjoyed, and...
General (D.2.0) | May 3 13
Multi perspectives business process and workflow modelling: a domain engineering approach
A painstaking and utterly theoretical exercise in formal modeling, this work is almost unreadable in the usual sense. At its core, this dated dissertation (finished in 2004 and only available on demand)...
Patterns (D.2.11...) | Apr 23 13
A practical approach to large-scale agile development: how HP transformed LaserJet FutureSmart firmware
Gruver, Young, and Fulghum present a compelling study showcasing the agile practices that helped transform how they developed firmware for their LaserJet line of printers at HP. A project that...
Management (D.2.9) | Apr 25 13
.NET test automation recipes: a problem-solution approach
McCaffrey has written a comprehensive book on .NET automation recipes. I found many good techniques in this book. More than that, he offers several complementary techniques, an approach that...
Microsoft .NET (D.3.2...) | May 7 13
21st century C
Whether you love C, hate C, or have no opinion, you cannot ignore C. A great deal of code is written in C. It is at the core of Unix and the Internet, and practically every computer now in use has a compiler for...
C (D.3.2...) | Apr 26 13
Pro ASP.NET MVC 4 (4th ed.)
Systems of design patterns did not become common until the 1990s, but architecture and design patterns did exist prior to the 1994 publication of the famous Design patterns [1]. Trygve M. H. Reenskaug...
Microsoft .NET (D.3.2...) | Apr 24 13
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