The enforcement of semantic integrity constraints in data and knowledge bases constitutea a major performance bottleneck. Integrity constraint simplification methods aim at reduci...
Dynamic binary translation (DBT) can provide security, virtualization, resource management and other desirable services to embedded systems. Although DBT has many benefits, its r...
Reducing power consumption has become a major challenge in the design and operation of today's computer systems. This chapter describes different techniques addressing this c...
Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), graphics processing units (GPUs) and Sony’s Playstation 2 vector units offer scope for hardware acceleration of applications. Implementin...
Lee W. Howes, Paul Price, Oskar Mencer, Olav Beckm...
Classic loop unrolling allows to increase the performance of sequential loops by reducing the overheads of the non-computational parts of the loop. Unfortunately, when the loop con...
Roger Ferrer, Alejandro Duran, Xavier Martorell, E...