Architecture of Computing Systems - ARCS 2008

Invited Program.- Keynote: Grand Challenges of Computer Engineering.- Keynote: The Impact of Operating Systems on Modern CPU Designs (and Vice Versa).- I Hardware Design.- System Level Simulation of Autonomic SoCs with TAPES.- Topology-Aware Replica Placement in Fault-Tolerant Embedded Networks.- Design of Gate Array Circuits Using Evolutionary Algorithms.- II Pervasive Computing.- Direct Backtracking: An Advanced Adaptation Algorithm for Pervasive Applications.- Intelligent Vehicle Handling: Steering and Body Postures While Cornering.- III Network Processors and Memory Management.- A Hardware Packet Re-Sequencer Unit for Network Processors.- Self-aware Memory: Managing Distributed Memory in an Autonomous Multi-master Environment.- IV Reconfigurable Hardware.- Dynamic Reconfiguration of FlexRay Schedules for Response Time Reduction in Asynchronous Fault-Tolerant Networks.- Synthesis of Multi-dimensional High-Speed FIFOs for Out-of-Order Communication.- A Novel Routing Architecture for Field-Programmable Gate-Arrays.- V Real-Time Architectures.- A Predictable Simultaneous Multithreading Scheme for Hard Real-Time.- Soft Real-Time Scheduling on SMT Processors with Explicit Resource Allocation.- A Hardware/Software Codesign of a Co-processor for Real-Time Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography on a Spartan3 FPGA.- VI Organic Computing.- A Reference Architecture for Self-organizing Service-Oriented Computing.- Towards Self-organising Smart Camera Systems.- Using Organic Computing to Control Bunching Effects.- VII Computer Architecture.- A Generic Network Interface Architecture for a Networked Processor Array (NePA).- Constructing Optimal XOR-Functions to Minimize Cache Conflict Misses.- Potentials of Branch Predictors: From Entropy Viewpoints.