The last several years have witnessed dramatic changes in the wireless Web interface environment, specifically in the way that content is stored, distributed, and checked for consistency while leveraging location awareness. This phenomenon is...

The last great telecommunications revolution brought us fiber optics, mobile phones, videoconferencing, and a host of other innovations that improved life and business and connected individuals in ways never imagined. Now emerging technologies such as Voice over Internet Protocol...

High-performance system architectures are increasingly exploiting heterogeneity: multi- and manycore-based systems are complemented by coprocessors, accelerators, and reconfigurable units providing huge computational power. However, applications of scientific interest (e.g. in high-performance computing and numerical simulation) are not yet...

As the field of bioinformatics continues to flourish, producing enormous amounts of new data, the need for sophisticated methods of data mining to better manage and extract meaning from...

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Increasingly, these systems have to consume little energy....

The Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture provides a one-semester introduction to computer organization and architecture. Created in direct correlation to the ACM-IEEE Computing Curricula 2001 guidelines, this text exposes the inner working of a modern digital computer through an integrated presentation of fundamental...