We suggest that the components of the well known divide-and-conquer paradigm can be prootably presented as independent constructs in a skeletal parallel programming model. We investigate this proposal in the context of a rendition of Batcher's bitonic sorting algorithm in which the nested parallel structure of the program is neatly abstracted from the low level detail of a at presentation. We s...

Today, big and small organizations alike collect huge amounts of data, and they do so with one goal in mind: extract "value" through sophisticated exploratory analysis, and use it as the basis to make decisions as varied as personalized treatment and ad targeting. To address this challenge, we have developed Berkeley Data Analytics Stack (BDAS), an open source data analytics stack for big data ...

Autonomic computing aims to deal with the complexity of todays systems by letting the system handle the complexity autonomously. This is a very hard and challenging domain because current systems are complex, distributed, interconnected and rapidly changing systems. We firmly belief that a main challenge in conquering autonomic systems is the integration of three existing research communities: ...

In this paper we will try to characterize the role that graphs are conquering within the Pattern Recognition field. To this aim, a taxonomy built considering the most common applications of graph based techniques in the Pattern Recognition and Image Processing field is presented and discussed.

Ethernet is now conquering the field level in automation technology. Realtime behavior is a knock-out criterion therefore. This paper deals with the key concepts for guaranteed realtime behavior using Ethernet, based on the requirements of factory automation. A classification of the vendor-driven approaches that are currently under discussion for realtime Ethernet is provided.