Special Issue: Modern Hardware

Special Issue on Data Management using Modern Storage Hardware

The high random and sequential I/O requirements of contemplated workloads could serve as impetus to move faster towards storage-class memory (SCM), a technology that will blur the distinction between memory and storage. On the other hand, the volume of digital data being produced is increasing at an ever accelerating pace. Recent technology demonstrations indicate that low-cost, low-power tape ...

Special Issue on Data Management using Modern Storage Hardware

The high random and sequential I/O requirements of contemplated workloads could serve as impetus to move faster towards storage-class memory (SCM), a technology that will blur the distinction between memory and storage. On the other hand, the volume of digital data being produced is increasing at an ever accelerating pace. Recent technology demonstrations indicate that low-cost, low-power tape ...

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Special issue on hardware implementations of soft computing techniques

Soft computing (SC) techniques, which include methods from fuzzy logic, neural networks, evolutionary computing, and other similar areas, have proven in the last few years how tolerance for imprecision, uncertainty, or approximation can be exploited to achieve tractable, robust, and low cost solutions. Most of SC methods and algorithms have been implemented in software on common computer system...

Special issue on modern search heuristics and applications

Since its inception in the early 1980s, we have seen a lot of exciting developments in the field of metaheuristics. The complexity of many real-world problems, which are often associated with large search spaces, real-time performance demands and dynamic environments, has made exact solution methods impractical to solve them within a reasonable amount of time. This gives rise to various types o...