Communication and topology aware process mapping is a powerful approach to reduce communication time in parallel applications with known communication patterns on large, distributed memory systems. We address the problem as a quadratic assignment problem (QAP), and present algorithms to construct initial mappings of processes to processors as well as fast local search algorithms to further impr...

One of the areas with greatest needs having available information at the right moment and with high accuracy is healthcare. Right information at right time saves lives. Healthcare is a vital domain which needs high processing power for high amounts of data. Due to the critical and the special characteristics of these systems, formal methods are used for specification, description and verificati...

architecture precedents are important sources to educate architecture students. inappropriate use of precedents may lead to design fixation. the use of precedents is common in architectural design and there is no clear difference between copy and inspiration. therefore it is important to know what the true mapping is and how we can evaluate the relation between precedent and design outcome. in ...