Current software and hardware co-synthesis methodologies of control dominated embedded systems focus primarily on improving productivity in the complex design process. In order to improve synthesis quality, we propose a methodology that incorporates data flow and control optimizations performed on a novel implementation independent design task representation. The approach is applicable to any c...

SUMMARY We introduce BRAT-BW, a fast, accurate and memory-efficient tool that maps bisulfite-treated short reads (BS-seq) to a reference genome using the FM-index (Burrows-Wheeler transform). BRAT-BW is significantly more memory efficient and faster on longer reads than current state-of-the-art tools for BS-seq data, without compromising on accuracy. BRAT-BW is a part of a software suite for ge...

New developments and decreasing costs of electronic appliances enable the realization of pervasive systems in our daily environment. In our work, we focus on eHome systems. eHomes are homes equipped with electronic devices and a software system offering services incorporating these devices and external services. The configuration of software components making up these systems is one of the majo...

Though portable accelerometers are ubiquitous in physiology and public health studies, their accuracy as objective measures of physical activity is still being examined. This paper enumerates and analyzes the various biases of the widely used ActiLife(®) software in reporting activity counts from ActiGraph(®) accelerometers. In particular, we focus on the two-stage proprietary filtration algori...

Applying a Software Process Improvement (SPI) program to GEANT4 [1] represents a rather challenging task, both in terms of software development and organisational matters. The complexity of the software involved, the wide areas of application of the software product, the huge amount of code and Category complexity, and the size and distributed nature of the Collaboration itself are all ingredie...

Current software engineering practice concentrates on improving the process by which a programmer develops a solution from the description of a problem; we describe a new paradigm for software synthesis based on Domain-Speciic Software Architectures (DSSAs) that eliminates this process entirely. A DSSA provides an overall software design that solves a whole class of problems in a broad area. It...

The global growth of the Internet continues with an increase in accessibility, connected users and new applications emerging fields like egames, augmented virtual reality. Technologies that improve reliability whilst reducing cost latency are being developed. However, before can sustain utilisation there challenges to overcome. One key remaining is develop mechanisms for intra inter-domain fede...