In this paper we describe our design and characterization of a co-processor architecture to accelerate median-based phylogenetic reconstruction for generearrangement data. Our curr...
We study video transcoding for accelerated channel changes in IPTV systems. Video transcoding at the Retransmission Server not only reduces the channel change latency, but also re...
Mobile computing is considered of major importance to the computing industry for the forthcoming years due to the progress in the wireless communications area. A proxy-based archi...
Today, quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are widely used in finance to price derivative securities. The QMC approach is popular because for many types of derivatives it yields an es...
In this work a hybrid training scheme for the supervised learning of feedforward neural networks is presented. In the proposed method, the weights of the last layer are obtained em...