Architecture of Computing Systems -- ARCS 2014

Resource-Aware Harris Corner Detection Based on Adaptive Pruning.- Victim Selection Policies for Intel TBB: Overheads and Energy Footprint.- Non-preemptive Scheduling of Real-Time Software TransactionalMemory.- Trust-Enhanced Self-configuration for Organic Computing Systems.- Estimation of Reward and Decision Making for Trust-Adaptive Agents in Normative Environments.- An Adaptive Personal Learning Environment Architecture.- Middleware for Dynamically Adaptive Systems.- Mahler: Sketch-Based Model-Driven Virtual Prototyping.- Formal Architecture Specification for Time Analysis.- Hardware APIs: A Software-Centric Approach for Automated Derivation of MPSoC Hardware Structures Based on Static Code Analysis.- uBuild: Automated Testing and Performance Evaluation of Embedded Linux Systems.- A Two-Tier Design Space Exploration Algorithm to Construct a GPU Performance Predictor.- A Sensor Network Architecture for Urban Traffic State Estimationwith Mixed Eulerian/Lagrangian Sensing Based on Distributed Computing.- From Smart Clothing to Smart Table Cloth: Design and Implementationof a Large Scale, Textile Pressure Matrix Sensor.- Performance Isolation Exposure in Virtualized Platforms with PCI Passthrough I/O Sharing.- 3D DRAM and PCMs in Processor Memory Hierarchy.- A Service-Oriented Architecture for Virtualizing Robots in Robot-as-a-Service Clouds.- Towards Code Safety with High Performance.- Detecting Compromised Programs for Embedded System Applications.- Independent Kernel/Process Checkpointing on Non-Volatile Main Memory for Quick Kernel Rejuvenation.

Kay Römer is currently a senior researcher and lecturer at ETH Zurich (Switzerland). He received his Ph.D. in computer science from ETH with a thesis on sensor networks. Kay holds a master's degree in computer science from the University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany. His research interests encompass sensor networks, software infrastructures for ubiquitous computing, and middleware for distributed systems.