project scheduling inevitably involves uncertainty. The basic inputs (i.e., time, cost, and resources for each activity) are not deterministic and are affected by various sources of uncertainty. Moreover, there is a causal relationship between these uncertainty sources and project parameters; this causality is not modeled in current state-of-the-art project planning techniques {such as simulati...

The architectural regularity of FPGAs provides an inherent redundancy which can be exploited for fault tolerance and yield enhancement. In this paper we examine the problem of recon guring the placement of a circuit on an FPGA to tolerate a given fault pattern in the array of CLBs. The primary objective of the placement recon guration is to minimize timing degradation. The concept of a slack ne...

In this paper, we propose a new fast and practical technique to eliminate known false paths during the static timing analysis (STA). False paths are verified fast using additional information stored in arrival times, which is a pass-through history of exceptional nodes. The information can be constructed with small memory overhead hecause individual false path list is not managed in each arriva...

In this work complexity is defined as the combination of the number and types of Value Transfer Functions (VTF) between stakeholders of a system. Increasing the number of stakeholders increases the complexity. The two primary objectives of management of the complexity are to (i) reduce the uncertainty of estimating project schedule and budget, and (ii) improve the performance of the team. Manag...

This paper presents a novel hardware-based approach for identifying, prooling, and monitoring hot spots in order to support runtime optimization of general-purpose programs. The proposed approach consists of a set of tightly coupled hardware tables and control logic modules that are placed in the retirement stage of a processor pipeline removed from the critical path. The features of the propos...

In a traditional multi-camera surveillance system, it’s hard to find the routes of the suspect objects, and search for those video clips related to the suspect objects from the surveillance database. In this paper, we present a framework for spatial relationship construction, abnormal event detection and video content searching for visual surveillance applications. This system can automatically...

This paper presents a low-cost and highperformance programmable digital finite impulse response (FIR) filter. The architecture employs the computation sharing algorithm to reduce the computation complexity. In the traditional computation sharing algorithm, critical path constraint on the output summation stage is a bottleneck, thus, the canonic-sign-digit representation is utilized for filter c...

Device scaling and large integration increase the vulnerability of microprocessors to transient errors. One of the structures where errors can be most harmful is the register file, because it is part of the architectural state. Moreover, because the register file is frequently read, an error can quickly propagate to other parts of the processor. This paper presents Shield, a novel, cost-effecti...

UNLABELLED Cardiac failure represents an important public health problem and despite recent clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic advances, the incidence and prevalence of this syndrome show a steady increase. In view of this, the authors conducted a meta-analysis to evaluate the effect of critical pathways in the management of patients with cardiac failure when compared with standard care. The ...

Previous research has introduced novel energy saving techniques such as the use of multiple VDD and VTH transistors, as well as transistor sizing, to limit storage energy and standby power. These techniques have been used to lower the power consumed in the non-critical paths of a design for a given performance specified by the critical path. In this report, a proposal to investigate how dual-su...