Monolithic operating systems (OSes) are complex pieces of software that usually offer very little reliability and security guarantees. Faulty user-space applications can generally be restarted without affecting the existing concurrent communications but those involving the faulty processes. On the other hand, in a monolithic OS design, the kernel and all its components share a common address sp...

Most conventional text retrieval methods are designed to search for documents. However, users often do not require documents themselves, but are searching for specific information that may come from a large collection of texts quickly. To satisfy this need, we have developed a model and two methods for fine-grained searching. The unit of search in this model is called an atom, and it can be a s...

The active appearance model (AAM) is one of the most powerful model-based object detecting and tracking methods which has been widely used in various situations. However, the high-dimensional texture representation causes very time-consuming computations, which makes the AAM difficult to apply to real-time systems. The emergence of modern graphics processing units (GPUs) that feature a many-cor...

Many optimization problems have complex search space, which either increase the solving problem time or finish searching without obtaining the best solution. Genetic Algorithm (GA) is an optimization technique used in solving many practical problems in science, engineering, and business domains. Parallel Genetic Algorithm (PGA) has been widely used to increase speed of GA, especially after the ...

Austenitic stainless steels are extensively used in various applications requiring good corrosion resistance and formability. In the current study, the formation of nano/ ultrafine grained austenitic microstructure in a microalloyed AISI 304L stainless steel was investigated by the advanced thermomechanical process of reversion of strain-induced martensite. For this purpose, samples were subjec...

Fine-grained accelerators have the potential to deliver significant benefits in various platforms for embedded signal processing. Due to the moderate complexity of their targeted operations, these accelerators must be managed with minimal run-time overhead. In this paper, we present a methodology for applying flow-shop scheduling techniques to make effective, lowoverhead use of fine-grained DSP...

The introduction of concurrency complicates the already diicult task of large-scale programming. Concurrent object-oriented languages provide a mechanism, encapsulation, for managing the increased complexity of large-scale concurrent programs, thereby reducing the diiculty of large scale concurrent programming. In particular, ne-grained object-oriented approaches provide modularity through enca...

Due to the increase in the number of classes and the decrease in the semantic differences between classes, fine-grained classification of Named Entities is a more difficult task than classic classification of NEs. Using only simple local context features for this fine-grained task cannot yield a good classification performance. This paper proposes a method exploiting Multi-features for fine-gra...