Recent research in peer-to-peer and grid computing has made it possible to build Internet scale services such as content distribution, storage service, name service and publish/subscribe. By utilizing large number of service ...

With diminishing performance improvement from general-purpose processors and reducing cost for programmable hardware, accelerating computation with dedicated accelerators has been gaining increased attention, with FPGAs ...

Current techniques for building detection in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery can be computationally expensive and/or enforce stringent requirements for data acquisition. I present two techniques that are effective ...

Programs for hard real-time systems have stringent timing requirements. Real-time programs are usually designed for the worst-case situation, which makes them inefficient. We argue that real-time programs should be more ...

This thesis addresses the issue of ensuring user programs to be executed reliably by making use of the idle resources provided by the workstation environment. In particular, we examine how to replicate user programs so ...

Our model for the unsteady transport of a dopant during the entire period of time required to grow a crystal assumes that the externally applied magnetic field is sufficiently strong that inertial effects and convective ...

The second contribution of this thesis is architecture support and programming model for a data-centric approach to thread synchronization. In Data-Centric Synchronization (DCS), the programmer uses local reasoning to ...

Bifurcations are one of the fundamental elements of a fluvial (river) system, and diversions are a special type of asymmetrical bifurcation where one of the channels after bifurcation continues along the original channel. ...