Performance is a key quality of modern software. Although recent years have seen a spike in
research on automated improvement of software's execution time, energy, memory …

In recent years, many new approaches in approximate computing have been presented.
These techniques have shown great opportunities to improve performance or energy …

Smart health monitoring devices, known as Wireless Body Sensor Nodes (WBSN) are
transforming today's health-care landscape, shifting it from traditional hospital-based …

Nowadays, the manufacturing world is increasingly empowered by the Internet of Things
(IoT) and other concepts like data analytics. Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS) are …

The end of Dennard scaling has caused a stagnation of the clock frequency in computers.
To overcome this issue, in the last two decades vendors have been integrating larger …

Current large scale systems show increasing power demands, to the point that it has
become a huge strain on facilities and budgets. The increasing restrictions in terms of power …

Hardware errors become more common as silicon technologies shrink and become more
vulnerable, especially in memory cells, which are the most exposed to errors. Permanent …

Emerging applications today operate on increasingly larger data sets, and as a result, the
memory subsystem is prone to be a bottleneck in bandwidth and capacity. Many of these …

Following Moore's Law, the number of transistors on chip has been increasing
exponentially, which has led to the increasing complexity of modern processors. As a result …