The term “autonomy” comes from the Greek roots “autos” and “nomos”, which mean “self” and “law” respectively. This survey paper investigates the concept of autonomy in connection with the development of cyber-physical systems. The concept of autonomy refers to a form of self-regulation or self-government …

BACKGROUND: Our previously published CUDA-only application PaSWAS for Smith-Waterman (SW) sequence alignment of any type of sequence on NVIDIA-based GPUs is platform-specific and therefore adopted less than could be. The OpenCL language is supported more widely and allows use on a variety of hardware …

From the ACM record: "Software architecture reconstruction techniques may be used to understand and maintain software systems, especially in these cases where architectural documentation is outdated or missing. This paper presents the architecture reconstruction functionality of HUSACCT and describes …

The question which author has written a certain text has been around since people have started to put their ideas and thoughts into writing. Recent advancements in statistics and the capabilities of powerful machine learning algorithms have created a research field which is known as authorship attribution. …

Technology is responsible for major systemic changes within the global financial sector in general and particularly in the trade in financial products. The global financial sector has already developed into a comprehensive network of mutually connected people and computers that are constantly evaluating …

This work has: •Examined, compared and evaluated 22 programming languages and environments for parallel computing on multi-core CPUs and GPUs •Chosen to use OpenMP as the standard for multi-core CPU programming and OpenCL for GPU programming •Re-implemented a number of standard and well-known algorithms …