1 Eberhard Kienzle, University of Applied Sciences Esslingen, Department of Information Technology, Flandernstrasse 101, D 73732 Esslingen, Germany; [email protected] Abstract  Thinking in parallel and distributed categories is imperative for todays computer applications. It is shown how students train this way of thinking by carrying out a laboratory project. Students develop ...

Business processes in todays German universities possess high reorganization potential through Information Technology (IT). In particular service-oriented architectures (SOA) gain importance and respective development projects are started, distributed with respect to personnel, place and can comprise diverse organizations. We assume that a detailed analysis of company’s business process structu...

Very recently, it was shown that the well known scoreboard as introduced in the CDC 6600 and described in current textbooks runs into deadlocks. However, it is one of the two major scheduling mechanisms used in todays microprocessors. This paper presents a corrected version of the scoreboard and formally proves that mechanism to be correct and deadlock free.

Storage Management continues to play a key role in providing a complete solution to todays most challenging computational problems. This paper describes the current market trends and customer requirements driving Cray’s continued commitment to providing an integrated storage management solution. Product directions for the areas of network backup, archive and hierarchical storage management (HSM...

This brief note highlights some basic concepts required toward understanding the evolution of machine learning and deep learning models. The note starts with an overview of artificial intelligence and its relationship to biological neuron that ultimately led to the evolution of todays intelligent models.

Dependability in todays software systems is hard to achieve. Missing physical boundaries like the laws of nature in other engineering disciplines and a lack of understanding how to control the software runtime behavior to enforce consistency are two major reasons. This paper introduces a novel approach to improving software systems’ dependability by the concept of execution guarantees.

Sheet-of-light range measurement is a commonly used method in todays industrial applications. This paper describes a new way of using an existing image sensor and turns it into a fast programmable sheet-of-light range sensor. The system is capable of measuring up to 4 Mranglels.

Due to an increase in the demand of context-aware applications, there is a higher requirement for an accurate user location information. Todays mobile devices contain embedded sensors like gyroscope, accelerometer and electronic compass. Researchers are exploiting these sensors to estimate user position and location in different environments. This paper surveys the latest trends of using these ...