Most engineering problems in the real world have several objectives that have to be fulfilled, assigning the appropriate values to the decision variables involved in them. These problems are commonly called multi-objective problems. Most of the times the objectives in these problems are in conflict. This means that, when we try to optimize one objective, we will probably not optimize them all. ...

Motivated group members experience a full sense of choice: of doing what one wants. Such behavior shows high performance, is enjoyable, and enhances innovation. This essay describes principles of building a motivated research group.

Modulo multiplication plays an important role in the Fermat number transform and residue number systems; the diminished-1 representation of numbers has been found most suitable for representing the elements of the rings. Existing algorithms for modulo multiplication either use recursive modulo addition, or a regular binary multiplication integrated with the modulo reduction operation. Although ...

During this working group, we gathered a set of guidelines for establishing and maintaining fruitful industry-research collaborations. We divided these guidelines into the collaboration phase (awareness, contact, setup, and research, as will be defined) and, within each phase, to whom the guideline applied (researchers, practitioners, or both). The agreed-upon deliverable from this session was ...

The choice of lock objects in concurrent programs can affect both performance and correctness, a burden of complexity for programmers. Recently, various automated lock allocation and assignment techniques have been proposed, each aiming primarily to minimize the number of conflicts between critical sections. However, practical performance depends on a number of important factors, including the ...

Philips Medical Systems makes MR-scanners among many other products for medical purposes such as diagnostics. MR stands for Magnetic Resonance and the technology enables MRscanners to analyze the human body for potential diseases. The software for these MR-scanners is complex and has been evolving for more than 27 years. The software archive has been evolved into a single 9 MLOC archive, which ...