Power consumption has become one of the most critical concerns for processor design. Parallelism offers a pathway to increased performance under power constraints — many slow processors can complete a parallel implementation of a task using less time and less energy than a fast uniprocessor. This relies on the energy-time trade-offs present in CMOS circuits, including voltage scaling. Understan...

The design and analysis of algorithms requires a model of computation. Such a model should faithfully reflect the physical processes of computation so that a programmer can distinguish efficient computations from inefficient ones. At the same time, the model must be simple enough to be tractable and general enough to continue to apply as the underlying technologies evolve. From a computer archi...

The largest unsteady 3-D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) results produced today exceed 100 gigabytes. Visualizing these large data sets stresses computational resources, requiring users and visualization systems to make trade-offs between time, space, and flexibility. Current CFD visualization systems make trade-offs which severely limit visualization of the largest unsteady 3-D CFD results....

Most of the search literature considers univariate alternatives even though real-world alternatives are typically characterized by multiple attributes. We address this gap by developing a model of search for multiattribute alternatives, focusing on the case of parallel search. The univariate model of parallel search has been applied to vendor selection, new product development, and innovation t...

Life-history theory predicts evolutionary changes in reproductive traits and intrinsic mortality rates in response to differences in extrinsic mortality rates. Trade-offs between life- history traits play a pivotal role in these predictions, and such trade-offs are mediated, at least in part, by physiological allocations. To gain insight into these trade-offs, we have been performing a long-ter...

P roteomics is defined as the protein complement of the genome and involves the complete analysis of all the proteins in a given sample [1,2]. Several technologies are involved, and numerous questions concerning the proteins are addressed. What proteins are contained in a biological sample? At what concentration do the proteins exist? How do protein expression levels alter in different samples?...

Behavioral ecology (Krebs 1987) has a rich tradition of calling tradeoffs a cost-benefit. We can synonymize cost-benefit analysis with the notion of a life history trade-off introduced in chapter 3, because in some cases even social system trade-offs have been linked to the pleiotropic effects of one gene on two or more traits. As we will see below, in greenbeard dynamics, which arise from thre...

The analysis of trade-offs between competitive priorities is one of the core issues in manufacturing strategy research. However, past studies focused mainly on empirical validation of the trade-off concept. There has been limited research on practical aspects of trade-off management, especially methods for trade-off improvement and the incorporation of trade-off analysis into manufacturing stra...