Even though the number and variety of available con guration management systems has grown rapidly in the past few years, the need for new con guration management systems still remains. Driving this need are the emergence of situations requiring highly specialized solutions, the demand for management of artifacts other than traditional source code, and the exploration of wholely new research que...

This paper describes a framework and tools for automating the production of designs which can be partially recon gured at run time. The tools include: (i) a partial evaluator, which produces con guration les for a given design, where the number of con gurations can be minimised by a process known as compile-time sequencing; (ii) an incremental con guration calculator, which takes the output of ...

Partial re-con ̄guration is the process of con ̄guring a portion of a FPGA while the rest of the device is still running/operating. This paper proposes a novel allocation methodology for realizing applications with partial and dynamic features on FPGAs. The methodology was implemented as a manager that incorporates two stages: the ̄rst one modi ̄es the con ̄guration data of each partial bitstream by...

The problem addressed is the distributed recon£guration of a metamorphic robot system composed of any number of two dimensional robots (modules) from speci£c initial to speci£c goal con£gurations. The initial con£guration we consider is a straight chain of modules, while the goal con£guration satis£es a simple admissibility condition. Recon£guration of the modules depends on £nding a contiguous...

Software con guration management is widely accepted today as an essential factor for the success of any software development project. Many di erent types of artifacts are created and need to be managed during the life cycle of a software project. These range from source code to requirements, analysis and design documents and models, test cases and collaboration artifacts such as captured ration...

This paper describes a framework and tools for automating the production of designs which can be partially recon gured at run time. The tools include: (i) a partial evaluator, which produces con guration les for a given design, where the number of con gurations can be minimised by a process known as compile-time sequencing; (ii) an incremental con guration calculator, which takes the output of ...

High performance computing (HPC) applications, such as metagenomics and other big data systems, need to store and analyze huge volumes of semi-structured data. Such applications o‰en rely on NoSQL-based datastores, and optimizing these databases is a challenging endeavor, with over 50 con€guration parameters in Cassandra alone. As the application executes, database workloads can change rapidly ...

QoS-enabled component middleware can help reduce the complexity of deploying and con guring real-time aspects, such as priorities and rates of invocation. Few empirical studies have been conducted, however, to guide developers of distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems in choosing among alternative designs and performance optimizations. This paper makes two key contributions to researc...

Managing large IP networks requires an understanding of the current tra c ows, routing policies, and network con guration. Yet, the state-of-the-art for managing IP networks involves manual con guration of each IP router, and tra c engineering based on limited measurements. The networking industry is sorely lacking in software systems that a large Internet Service Provider (ISP) can use to supp...

A new con guration of cooperative 2-DOF robots is presented for use in precision assembly applications. This con guration consists of direct drive planar linear motors traveling on a tabletop platen stator surface combined with overhead 2-DOF manipulators. We outline desirable features of a precision assembly system and use them to compare the proposed con guration to typical con gurations that...