There is no doubt that AI research has made significant progress, both in helping us understand how the human mind works and in constructing ever more sophisticated machines. But, for all this, its conceptual foundations ...

As applications become more and more complex, it is becoming extremely important to have sufficient compute power on the chip. Multicore and many-core systems have been introduced to address this problem. This chapter ...

Wireless multi-hop networks such as mobile ad-hoc (MANET) or wireless mesh networks (WMN) have attracted big research efforts during the last years as they have huge potential in several areas such as military communications, ...

Multimedia objects like video clips or captioned images contain data of various modalities such as image, audio, and transcript text. Correlations across different modalities provide information about the multimedia content, ...

The increased size and complexity of software systems has led to the notion of multiple software product lines (MPLs) in which products are composed from subproducts in separate software product lines. Thus, it is important ...

Voltage/frequency scaling andprocessor low-power modes (i.e., processor shut-down) are two important mechanisms usedfor reducing energy consumption in embedded MPSoCs. While a unified scheme that combines these two ...

Software engineering is compared with traditional engineering disciplines using a domain specific problem-solving model called Problem-Solving for Engineering Model (PSEM). The comparative analysis is performed both from ...

Model-Driven Software Development (MDSD) aims to support the development and evolution of software intensive systems using the basic concepts of model, metamodel, and model transformation. In parallel with the ongoing ...

In this chapter, we present a new thumbnail format for 3D videos with depth, 3D thumbnail, which helps users to understand the content by preserving the recognizable features and qualities of 3D videos. The current thumbnail ...

This chapter explores the possibility of using heterogeneous chip multiprocessors (CMPs) for network and system security. It proposes an integer linear programming (ILP)-based methodology to mathematically analyze and ...