energy carriers including electricity play a critical role in human societies development, and as the time passes, their importance in the human socio-economic life rises. therefore, knowing electricity demand and the factors affecting on it could have an effective role in economic decision-making. while dividing electricity demand into different consuming sectors, this study uses economic vari...

We define information leakage in terms of a “difference” between the a priori distribution over some remote behavior and the a posteriori distribution of the remote behavior conditioned on a local observation from a protocol run. Either a maximum or an average may be used. We identify a set of notions of “difference;” we show that they reduce our general leakage notion to various definitions in...

Current parallelizing compilers cannot identify a signiicant fraction of parallelizable loops because they have complex or statically insuuciently deened access patterns. We advocate a novel framework for the identiication of parallel loops. It speculatively executes a loop as a doall and applies a fully parallel data dependence test to check for any unsatissed data dependencies; if the test fa...

This thesis is dedicated to models and algorithms for the use in physical cryptanalysis which is a new evolving discipline in implementation security of information systems. It is based on physically observable and manipulable properties of a cryptographic implementation. Physical observables, such as the power consumption or electromagnetic emanation of a cryptographic device are so-called ‘si...

Reconfigurable Computing (RC) is a technology that makes use of programmable logic (FPGAs) in conjunction with a traditional microprocessor to accelerate generalpurpose applications. Although the hardware resources in current FPGA devices are rapidly growing, a full-sized application will completely overwhelm even the largest available device. Consequently, only a portion of the application can...

Last level caches (LLC) play an important role in current and future chip multiprocessors, since they constitute the last opportunity to avoid expensive off-chip accesses. In a tiled CMP, the LLC is typically shared by all cores but physically distributed along the chip, thus providing a global banked capacity memory with high associativity. The memory hierarchy is orchestrated through a direct...