The field of heterogeneous computing is growing rapidly. New concepts and systems appear daily. Hence, it is important to fit each new contribution into its proper place in the puzzle called heterogeneous computing. This is possible only if an adequate taxonomy/classification exists, one that can show whether or not a new system is heterogeneous, and if so, what kind of heterogeneity it exhibit...

Separation between processes on top of an operating system or between guests in a virtualized environment is essential for establishing security on modern platforms. A key requirement of the underlying hardware is the ability to support multiple partitions executing on the shared hardware without undue interference. For modern processor architectures with hardware support for memory management,...

Transient faults can lead to serious errors in execution. Providing protection for the processor core against these faults requires redundant execution, which leads to a performance loss. However, not all bit flips have equal impact on the processor. The Architectural Vulnerability Factor (AVF) quantifies when a soft error is likely to alter the final output and when it has little impact due to...

In this paper, using the State Dependent Riccati Equation (SDRE) method, we propose a Robust Optimal Integral Sliding Mode Controller (ROISMC) to guarantee an optimal control law for a quadrotor which has become increasingly important by virtue of its high degrees of manoeuvres ability in presence of unknown time-varying external disturbances and actuator fault. The robustness of the controller...

Abstract: Complete system simulation to understand the influence of architecture and operating systems on application execution has been identified to be crucial for systems design. This problem is particularly interesting in the context of Java since it is not only the application that can invoke kernel services, but so does the underlying Java Virtual Machine (JVM) implementation which runs t...

Abstract: Complete system simulation to understand the influence of architecture and operating systems on application execution has been identified to be crucial for systems design. This problem is particularly interesting in the context of Java since it is not only the application that can invoke kernel services, but so does the underlying Java Virtual Machine (JVM) implementation which runs t...

We are interested in gaining more knowledge about the execution-time requirements of real-time control tasks, and this paper presents a system for gathering statistics of the execution times of real-time tasks. The system allows real-time code to be instrumented in order to gather, analyze, and present execution-time statistics. It has been used to instrument an existing hybrid controller to ga...

The aim of a multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling problem (MRCPSP) is to assign resource(s) with the restricted capacity to an execution mode of activities by considering relationship constraints, to achieve pre-determined objective(s). These goals vary with managers or decision makers of any organization who should determine suitable objective(s) considering organization strategi...

In this paper, a wind power system based on a doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG) is modeled and simulated. To guarantee high-performance control of the powers injected into the grid by the wind turbine, five intelligent super-twisting sliding mode controllers (STSMC) are used to eliminate the active power and current ripples of the DFIG. The STSMC controller is a high-order sliding mode cont...

Energy-efficient task scheduling is a fundamental issue in many application domains, such as energy conservation for mobile devices and the operation of green computing data centers. Modern processors support dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) on a per-core basis, i.e., the CPU can adjust the voltage or frequency of each core. As a result, the core in a processor may have different co...