Welcome to the proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Power and TimingModeling, Optimization and Simulations, PATMOS 2010. Over the years, PATMOS has evolved into an important European event, where researchers from both industry and academia discuss and investigate the emerging challenges in future and contemporary applications,...
When I started working with OSGi technology back in 2000, I would’ve never guessed I’d still be working with it a decade later. Back then, OSGi was targeting the embedded market niche, but that wasn’t my area of interest. I wanted to create highly dynamic, modular applications, and OSGi gave me the possibility of...
This is a textbook for a first- or second-year graduate course for electrical and computer
engineering (ECE) students in the area of digital image and video processing
and coding. The course might be called Digital Image and Video Processing (DIVP)
or some such, and has its heritage in the signal processing and communications areas
of...
This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on
Groupware (CRIWG 2003). The conference was held in the city of Autrans, on
the spectacular Vercors plateau in the foothills of the French Alps. The organizing
committee could not have thought of a better setting to inspire lively
discussions and reflection on...
In the summer of 1997, I was terrified. Instead of working as an intern in my major (microelectronic engineering), the best job I could find was at a research laboratory devoted to high-speed signal processing. My job was to program the two-dimensional fast Fourier transform (FFT) using C and the Message Passing Interface...
This book is inspired by boredom and fascination: boredom with the usual presentation of data structures and algorithms, and fascination with complex
systems. The problem with data structures is that they are often taught without a motivating context; the problem with complexity science is that it is
usually not taught at...
Many people do not realise that mathematics provides the foundation for the
devices we use to handle information in the modern world. Most of those who
do know probably think that the parts of mathematics involved are quite ‘classical’,
such as Fourier analysis and differential equations. In fact, a great deal
of...
Windows Embedded Compact 7 is really the latest version of Windows CE. Books dedicated to this
operating system are relatively scarce. Windows CE turned into a proper RTOS when Windows CE 3.0
was launched. A few books were published, most notably by Douglas Boling and James Wilson. The first
book concentrated on application...
The reader is provided with information on how to choose between the techniques and how to design a system that takes advantage of the best features of each of them. Imminently practical in approach, the book covers sampled data systems, choosing A-to-D and D-to-A converters for DSP applications, fast Fourier transforms, digital filters,...
This introduction to numerical analysis was written for students in mathematics,
the physical sciences, and engineering, at the upper undergraduate to beginning
graduate level. Prerequisites for using the text are elementary calculus, linear
algebra, and an introduction to differential equations. The student's level of...
Written by an acknowledged expert in the field, this book is an invaluable introductory guide for students studying chemistry, biochemistry and medicine. Provides a simple description of how aspects of molecular patholgy affect diseases.
It is my pleasure to acknowledge the enthusiasm and expertise
of the chapter authors who...
The hybrid/heterogeneous nature of future microprocessors and large high-performance computing systems will result in a reliance on two major types of components: multicore/manycore central processing units and special purpose hardware/massively parallel accelerators. While these technologies have numerous benefits, they also pose substantial...