This thesis describes and evaluates how extending Intel's Concurrent Collections (CnC) programming model can address the problem of hybrid programming with high performance and low energy consumption, while retaining the ...

Motion planning is a fundamental algorithmic problem that attracts attention because of its importance in many exciting applications, such as controlling robots or virtual agents in simulations and computer games. While ...

Many finite-dimensional minimization problems and nonlinear equations can be solved using Secant Methods. In this thesis, we present a historical development of the (n + 1)-point Secant Method tracing its evolution back ...

Energy consumption and network latency are important issues in wireless sensor networks. The mechanism duty cycling is generally used in wireless sensor networks for avoiding energy consumption due to idle listening. Duty ...

One of the criteria for inferring a species tree from a collection of gene trees, when gene tree incongruence is assumed to be due to incomplete lineage sorting (ILS), is minimize deep coalescence , or MDC. Exact algorithms ...

Modern mobile platforms are embracing not only heterogeneous but also loosely coupled computational resources. For instance, a smartphone usually incorporates multiple processor cores that have no hardware cache coherence. ...

The order in which the statements of a program are executed can affect the execution time of the program. Optimizing compilers have made use of this fact by reordering code to improve its performance on a machine. Some ...

Memento is a software infrastructure to support the construction and evolution of assistant applications (or assistants) that act as adjuncts to the human mind. Each assistant embodies an effective understanding of some ...

Hiding memory latency is critical in modern machines. Typically, machines have used cache and addressed the ensuing cache coherence problem with hardware or VM-based strategies that rely on global inter-cache communication. ...

High performance Fortran (HPF), as well as its predecessor FortranD, has attracted considerable attention as a promising language for writing portable parallel programs for a wide variety of distributed-memory architectures. ...