Reducing power consumption has become one of the primary challenges in chip design, and therefore significant efforts are being devoted to find holistic solutions on power reduction from the device level up to the system level. Among a plethora of low power devices that are being explored, single electron transistors (SETs) at room temperature are particularly attractive. Although prior work ha...

The architecture of a software system is typically defined as the organization of the system, the relationships among its components and the principles governing their design. By including artifacts coresponding to software engineering processes, the definition gets naturally extended into the architecture of a software system and process. In this paper we propose a holistic model to organize k...

Autonomous robot world modelling is a “chicken-and-egg” problem: position estimation needs a model of the world, whereas world modelling needs the robot position. Most of the works dealing with this issue propose holistic solutions under an algorithmic perspective by neglecting software architecture issues. This results in huge and monolithic pieces of software where implementation details reif...

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is becoming an increasingly mature field of work, but many large organizations still struggle with implementing an integral and truly effective EA function. The literature provides a fragmented picture of the EA function, describing the various separate elements that make up the total package of activities, resources, skills, and competences of the EA delivery funct...

The landscape of the World Wide Web with all its versatile services heavily relies on the disclosure of private user information. Service providers collecting more and more of these personal user data pose a growing privacy threat for users. Addressing user concerns privacy-enhancing technologies emerged. One goal of these technologies is to enable users to improve the control over their person...

We describe a novel approach for fully automated face recognition and show its feasibility on a large data base of facial images (FERET). Our approach, based on a hybrid architecture consisting of an ensemble of connectionist networks radial basis functions (RBF) and inductive decision trees (DT), combines the merits of ’discrete and abstractive’ features with those of ’holistic’ template match...

Process-aware information systems (PAIS) must not freeze business processes, but should enable authorized users to deviate from the implemented workflows on-the-fly and to dynamically evolve them over time. While there has been a lot of work on the theoretical foundations of dynamic process changes, there is still a lack of implemented PAIS providing this dynamics. Designing the architecture of...

At the end of 2012, Ceragon Networks set a new benchmark for microwave communications by introducing the industry’s first multi-core microwave radio, FibeAir IP-20C. A part of Ceragon’s Holistic HetNet Hauling (3H) vision, multi-core radio architecture marks the beginning of a new era in wireless communications, boosting microwave to new levels of capacity heretofore reserved to fiber optic cab...

Das Vortragsprogramm eröffnete Peter Zimmerer, Siemens mit der Keynote Architecture Testing for critical (and noncritical!) applications A holistic view, welche interessante Gedanken zum Testen von Architekturen im Vorfeld der Entwicklung präsentierte. Zum zweiten mal stellten Preisträger des GI TAV Awards ihre Arbeiten vor. Die diesjährigen Gewinner Daniela Rose und Stefan Krusche sprachen übe...

We believe that future large-scale multicore systems will require disciplined parallel programming practices, including data-race-freedom, deterministic-by-default semantics, and structured, explicit parallel control and side-effects. We argue that this software evolution presents far-reaching opportunities for parallel hardware design to greatly improve complexity, power-efficiency, and perfor...