Heterogeneous concurrent computing is gaining increasing acceptance as an alternative or complementary paradigm to multiprocessor-based parallel processing as well as to conventional supercomputing. While algorithmic and programming aspects of heterogeneous concurrent computing are similar to their parallel processing counterparts, system issues, partitioning and scheduling, and performance asp...

The advent of cloud computing (CC) in recent years has attracted substantial interest from various institutions, especially higher education institutions, which wish to consider the advantages of its features. Many universities have migrated from traditional forms of teaching to electronic learning services, and they rely upon information and communication technology services. The usage of CC i...

The OpenTC consortium’s first prototype was described in the January 2008 issue of the OpenTC newsletter. It essentially comprised a hypervisor with a compartment for carrying out Private Electronic Transactions (PET). The compartment sand-boxed a browser for conducting authorized transactions such as a bank transfer. By isolating that compartment from other compartments used for daily operatio...

Human beings have an inherent capability to use linguistic information (LI) seamlessly even though it is vague and imprecise. Computing with Words (CWW) was proposed impart computing systems this of human beings. The interest in the field CWW evident from a number publications on various methodologies. These methodologies different ways model semantics LI. However, best our knowledge, literatur...

The objectives of the research as planned in the original proposal were to perform a pilot study leading to the development of off-line predictive soft-computing based models for three different building types. The rationale behind the research was to see to what extent the soft-computing methodology is suited to each of these building types and to possibly formulate more detailed research prop...

Reconfigurable computing (RC) is rapidly emerging as a promising technology for the future of high-performance computing, enabling systems with the computational density and power of custom-logic hardware and the versatility of softwaredriven hardware in an optimal mix. Novel methods for rapid virtual prototyping, performance prediction, and evaluation are of critical importance in the engineer...

The synergistic and complementary use of fuzzy logic and neuro-computing has initiated the development of soft computing methodologies. In this paper, we investigate the research issues related to Intelligent Association in multi-embedded agents environments in respect to soft computing techniques. We introduce a new system that learns the importance of associations represented by fuzzy weights...