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Thesis

Energy and Temperature Aware Real-Time Systems CISTER-TR-141005
Muhammad Ali Awan

PhD Thesis. 16, Sep, 2014. Porto.

Timing Analysis of Real-Time Systems Considering the Contention on the Shared Interconnection Network in Multicores CISTER-TR-140522
Dakshina Dasari

PhD Thesis. May 2014. Porto, Portugal.

Real-Time Scheduling on Heterogeneous Multiprocessors CISTER-TR-140306
Gurulingesh Raravi

PhD Thesis. 17, Mar, 2014. Porto, Portugal.

On the Optimization of Multiple Applications for Sensor Networks VIKRAMG-THESIS
Vikram Gupta

PhD Thesis. 2014. Pittsburgh.

Books & Book Chapters

Experiments with a Sensing Platform for High Visibility of the Data Center CISTER-TR-131206
João Loureiro, Nuno Pereira, Pedro José Santos, Eduardo Tovar

Chapter in "Internet of Things Based on Smart Objects", Springer International Publishing. 2014, pp 181-198. Switzerland.

EasyLoc: Plug-and-Play RSS-Based Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks. Cooperative Robots and Sensor Networks CISTER-TR-140514
Maissa ben Jamâa, Anis Koubâa, Nouha Baccour, Khaled Al-Shalfan., Yasir Kayani, Mohamed Jmaiel

Chapter in "Cooperative Robots and Sensor Networks, Studies in Computational Intelligence", Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 2014, Volume 507, pp 77-98. Germany.

Cooperative Robots and Sensor Networks CISTER-TR-140515
Anis Koubâa, Abdelmajid Khelil

Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 2014, Volume 507, 98 pages. Germany.

Journal Papers

Smarter grid through collective intelligence: user awareness for enhanced performance CISTER-TR-150201
Marcel Macarulla, Michele Albano

Social Technologies (Social Technologies), Mykolas Romeris University. Dec 2014, Volume 4, Issue 2, pp 385-400.

Race-to-halt energy saving strategies CISTER-TR-150104
Muhammad Ali Awan, Stefan M. Petters

Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA), Eelsevier. Nov 2014, Volume 60, Issue 10, pp 796-815.

CPMD-mindful task assignment for NPS-F CISTER-TR-140711
Geoffrey Nelissen, Konstantinos Bletsas, Joel Goossens

Real-Time Systems, Springer US. Nov 2014, Volume 50, Issue 5-6, pp 585-591.

Task assignment algorithms for heterogeneous multiprocessors CISTER-TR-140510
Gurulingesh Raravi, Vincent Nélis

ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing (TECS), Article No 159, ACM. Nov 2014, Volume 13, Issue 5s, 26 pages. New York, NY, U.S.A..

Reliable and fast hand-offs in low-power wireless networks CISTER-TR-140501
Hossein Fotouhi, Mário Alves, Marco Zuniga, Anis Koubâa

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), IEEE. Nov 2014, Volume 13, Issue 11, pp 2620-2633.

Provably Good Task Assignment for Two-type Heterogeneous Multiprocessors using Cutting Planes CISTER-TR-140511
Björn Andersson, Gurulingesh Raravi

ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing (TECS), ACM. Sep 2014, Volume 13, Issue 5s.

Dynamic cluster scheduling for cluster-tree WSNs CISTER-TR-140906
Ricardo Severino, Nuno Pereira, Eduardo Tovar

Communication Networks, SpringerPlus. 31, Aug, 2014, Volume 3, Issue 493.

Cloud-assisted Wireless Body Area Networks CISTER-TR-140804
Sana Ullah, Athanasios Vasilakos, Han-Chieh Chao, Junichi Suzuki

Information Science (INS), Elsevier. Aug 2014, Volume 284, pp 81-83.Impact Factor: 3.893

smartPATH: An Efficient Hybrid ACO-GA Algorithm for Solving the Global Path Planning Problem of Mobile Robots CISTER-TR-140413
Imen Châari, Anis Koubâa, Hachemi Bennaceur, Adel Ammar, Khaled Al-Shalfan.

the International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (Impact Factor 0.821) (IJARS), InTech Publisher. 4, Jul, 2014, Volume 11, Issue 94.

An optimal boundary fair scheduling CISTER-TR-140503
Geoffrey Nelissen, Hang Su, Yifeng Guo, Dakai Zhu, Vincent Nélis, Joel Goossens

Real-Time Systems, Springer US. 1, Jul, 2014, Volume 50, Issue 4, pp 456-508. U.S.A..

Unified Overhead-aware Schedulability Analysis for Slot-based Task-splitting CISTER-TR-130201
Paulo Baltarejo Sousa, Konstantinos Bletsas, Eduardo Tovar, Pedro Souto, Benny Åkesson

Real-Time Systems journal, Springer US. Jul 2014, Volume 50, Issue 4, pp 1-56.

Performance evaluation of a cooperative reputation system for vehicular delay-tolerant networks CISTER-TR-140614
João AFF Dias, Joel JPC Rodrigues, Lei Shu, Sana Ullah

EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (EURASIP JWCN), Springer. 29, May, 2014, Volume 2014:88.

A survey of wireless technologies coexistence in WBAN: analysis and open research issues CISTER-TR-140520
Thaier Hayajneh, Ghada Almashaqbeh, Sana Ullah, Athanasios V. Vasilakos

Wireless Networks, Springer US. May 2014. U.S.A..2013 Impact Factor 1.055

Compositional Multiprocessor Scheduling: the GMPR interface CISTER-TR-140101
Artem Burmyakov, Enrico Bini, Eduardo Tovar

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Zip ArchiveMatlab tool for GMPR computation

Real-Time Systems, Springer US. May 2014, Volume 50, Issue 3, pp 342-376. U.S.A..

Real-Time Scheduling with Resource Sharing on Heterogeneous Multiprocessors CISTER-TR-140102
Björn Andersson, Gurulingesh Raravi

Real-Time Systems, Springer US. Mar 2014, Volume 50, Issue 2, pp 270-314. U.S.A..

NoC Contention Analysis using a Branch and Prune Algorithm CISTER-TR-131107
Dakshina Dasari, Borislav Nikolic, Vincent Nélis, Stefan M. Petters

Transactions in Embedded Computing Systems (DCMP 12), Article No 113, ACM. Mar 2014, Volume 13, Issue 3s, 26 pages. New York, NY, U.S.A..

Task assignment algorithms for two-type heterogeneous multiprocessors CISTER-TR-131002
Gurulingesh Raravi, Björn Andersson, Vincent Nélis, Konstantinos Bletsas

Real-Time Systems (RTS), Springer. Jan 2014, Volume 50, Issue 1, pp 87-141.Outstanding Paper Award, ECRTS 2012

Convergence to the European Energy Policy in European countries: case studies and comparison CISTER-TR-140617
César Teixeira, Michele Albano, Arne Skou, Lara Pérez Dueñas, Francesco Antonacci, Rodrigo Ferreira, Keld Lotzfeldt Pedersen, Sandra Scalari

Social Technologies (Social Technologies), Mykolas Romeris University. 2014, Volume 4, Issue 1, pp 7-18.

Conference or Workshop Papers/Talks

Another look at the pWCET estimation problem CISTER-TR-141105
Vincent Nélis, Patrick Meumeu Yomsi, Luis Miguel Pinho, Guillem Bernat

Work in Progress Session, IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2014). 2 to 5, Dec, 2014. Rome, Italy.

A Random Access Protocol assisted by Retransmission Diversity and Energy Reuse Capabilities CISTER-TR-150708
Ramiro Robles

8.º Congresso do Comité Português da URSI (URSIPT2014). 28, Nov, 2014. Lisboa, Portugal.

The Arrowhead Approach for SOA Application Development and Documentation CISTER-TR-141101
Fredrik Blomstedt, Luis Lino Ferreira, Markus Klisics, Christos Chrysoulas, Iker Martinez de Soria, Brice Morin, Anatolijs Zabasta, Jens Eliasson, Mats Johansson, Pal Varg

40th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2014). 29, Oct to 1, Nov, 2014, Industrial Informatics, pp 2631-2637. Dallas, U.S.A..

Smarter grid through collective intelligence: user awareness for enhanced performance CISTER-TR-141007
Michele Albano, Marcel Macarulla

International Academic Conference on Social Technologies ’14 (SocTech14). 23 to 24, Oct, 2014, Plenary Session. Vilnius, Lithuania.

Safe Parallel Programming in Ada with Language Extensions CISTER-TR-141010
S. Tucker Taft, Brad Moore, Luis Miguel Pinho, Stephen Michell

High Integrity Language Technology ACM SIGAda’s Annual International Conference (HILT 2014). 20 to 22, Oct, 2014. Portland, U.S.A..

EDF as an Arbitration Policy for Wormhole-Switched Priority-Preemptive NoCs - Myth or Fact? CISTER-TR-141006
Borislav Nikolic, Stefan M. Petters

International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT 2014). 12 to 17, Oct, 2014. New Delhi, India.

SPRINT: Extending RUN to Schedule Sporadic Tasks CISTER-TR-140905
Andrea Baldovin, Geoffrey Nelissen, Tullio Vardanega, Eduardo Tovar

22nd International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS 2014). 8 to 10, Oct, 2014. Versailles, France.

Response-Time Analysis of Synchronous Parallel Tasks in Multiprocessor Systems CISTER-TR-141001
Cláudio Maia, Marko Bertogna, Luis Miguel Nogueira, Luis Miguel Pinho

22nd International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS 2014). 8 to 10, Oct, 2014. Versailles, France.

Resource Sharing Under a Server-based Semi-Partitioned Scheduling Approach CISTER-TR-141008
Alexandre Esper, Eduardo Tovar

22nd International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS 2014). 8 to 10, Oct, 2014. Versailles, France.

WCET Measurement-based and Extreme Value Theory Characterisation of CUDA Kernels CISTER-TR-141009
Kostiantyn Berezovskyi, Luca Santinelli, Konstantinos Bletsas, Eduardo Tovar

22nd International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS 2014). 8 to 10, Oct, 2014. Versailles, France.

Arrowhead Compliant Virtual Market of Energy CISTER-TR-140706
Luis Lino Ferreira, Laurynas Siksnys, Per Pedersen, Petr Stluka, Christos Chrysoulas, Thibaut Le Guilly, Michele Albano, Arne Skou, César Teixeira, Torben Pedersen

9th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2014). 19 to 21, Sep, 2014, Flexible And Interoperable Automation Systems. Barcelona, Spain.

Security Vulnerabilities And Risks In Industrial Usage Of Wireless Communication CISTER-TR-140907
Sándor Plósz, Arsham Farshad, Markus Tauber, Christian Lesjak, Thomas Ruprechter, Nuno Pereira

19th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA2014). 16 to 19, Sep, 2014. Barcelona, Spain.

Temporal Isolation with Preemption Delay Accounting CISTER-TR-140703
José Marinho, Vincent Nélis, Stefan M. Petters

19th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2014). 16 to 19, Sep, 2014. Barcelona, Spain.

P-SOCRATES: a Parallel Software Framework for Time-Critical Many-Core Systems CISTER-TR-140710
Luis Miguel Pinho, Eduardo Quiñones, Marko Bertogna, Andrea Marongiu, Jorge Pereira Carlos, Claudio Scordino, Michele Ramponi

Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD) (DSD 2014). 27 to 29, Aug, 2014. Verona, Italy.

Towards a Runtime Verification Framework for the Ada Programming Language CISTER-TR-140305
André Pedro, David Pereira, Luis Miguel Pinho, Jorge Sousa Pinto

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Reliable Software Technologies – Ada-Europe 2014 (LNCS), Springer International Publishing. 23 to 27, Aug, 2014, 8454, pp 58-73.

A Context Aware Cache Controller to Bridge the Gap Between Theory and Practice in Real-Time Systems CISTER-TR-140704
Yannick Allard, Geoffrey Nelissen, Joel Goossens, Dragomir Milojevic

The 20th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA 2014). 20 to 22, Aug, 2014. Chongqing, China.

Network-Harmonized Scheduling for Multi-Application Sensor Networks CISTER-TR-140415
Vikram Gupta, Nuno Pereira, Shashank Gaur, Eduardo Tovar, Raj Rajkumar

The 20th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA 2014). 20 to 22, Aug, 2014. Chongqing, China.

The challenge of time-predictability in modern many-core architectures CISTER-TR-140624
Vincent Nélis, Patrick Meumeu Yomsi, Luis Miguel Pinho, José Fonseca, Marko Bertogna, Eduardo Quiñones, Roberto Vargas, Andrea Marongiu

14th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET 2014). 8, Jul, 2014. Madrid, Spain.

How to deal with control-flow information in parallel real-time applications? CISTER-TR-141201
José Fonseca, Vincent Nélis, Gurulingesh Raravi, Luis Miguel Pinho

5th Real-Time Scheduling Open Problems Seminar (RTSOPS 2014). 8, Jul, 2014. Madrid, Spain.

Towards Holistic Analysis for Fork-Join Parallel/Distributed Real-Time Tasks CISTER-TR-140707
Ricardo Garibay-Martínez, Luis Lino Ferreira, Geoffrey Nelissen, Luis Miguel Pinho

Work in Progress Session, 26th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2014). 8 to 11, Jul, 2014, pp 21-24. Madrid, Spain.

Information processing for extreme dense sensing: timeliness and scalability issues CISTER-TR-140713
Eduardo Tovar

13th International Workshop on Real-Time Networks (RTN 2014). 8, Jul, 2014. Madrid, Spain.

RTFM-lang Static Semantics for Systems with Mixed Criticality CISTER-TR-140625
Per Lindgren, Johan Eriksson, Marcus Lindner, David Pereira, Luis Miguel Pinho

Proc of Workshop on Mixed Criticality for Industrial Systems (WMCIS’2014), Ada User Journal, 35(2):128–132, 2014. (WMCIS 2014). 23 to 26, Jun, 2014. Paris, France.

Parallelism in Ada: Status and Prospects CISTER-TR-140307
Luis Miguel Pinho, Brad Moore, Stephen Michell

19th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2014 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), Springer International Publishing. 23, Jun, 2014, pp 91-106. Paris, France.

Co-RPL: RPL Routing for Mobile Low Power Wireless Sensor Networks using Corona Mechanism CISTER-TR-140524
Olfa Gaddoura, Anis Koubâa, Raghu R., Eduardo Tovar

9th IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems (SIES 2014). 15 to 17, Jun, 2014, pp 200-209. Italy.

On the Scheduling of Fork-Join Parallel/Distributed Real-Time Tasks CISTER-TR-140601
Ricardo Garibay-Martínez, Geoffrey Nelissen, Luis Lino Ferreira, Luis Miguel Pinho

9th IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems (SIES 2014). 15 to 17, Jun, 2014, Real-time scheduling. Pisa, Italy.

Sufficient Temporal Independence and Improved Interrupt Latencies in a Real-Time Hypervisor CISTER-TR-140303
Matthias Beckert, Moritz Neukirchner, Rolf Ernst, Stefan M. Petters

The 51st Annual Design Automation Conference on Design Automation Conference (DAC '14). 1 to 5, Jun, 2014, pp 86:1-86:6. San Francisco, CA, U.S.A..

Feature Extraction in Densely Sensed Environments CISTER-TR-140513
Maryam Vahabi, Vikram Gupta, Michele Albano, Eduardo Tovar

IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2014), IEEE. 27, May, 2014. Marina Del Rey, U.S.A..

Move and Improve: A Distributed Multi-Robot Coordination Approach for Multiple Depots Multiple Travelling Salesmen Problem CISTER-TR-140411
Omar Cheikhrouhoua, Anis Koubâa, Hachemi Bennaceur

the IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (IEEE ICARSC | ROBÓTICA 2014). 14 to 15, May, 2014, pp 28-35. Espinho, Portugal.

A Compositional Monitoring Framework for Hard Real-Time Systems CISTER-TR-140104
André Pedro, David Pereira, Luis Miguel Pinho, Jorge Sousa Pinto

NASA Formal Methods Symposium 2014 (NFM14), Springer International Publishing. 29, Apr, 2014, LNCS 8430, pp 16-30. Houston, TX, U.S.A..

Towards Certifiable Adaptive Reservations for Hypervisor-based Virtualization CISTER-TR-140304
Stefan Groesbrink, Luís Almeida, Mario de Sousa, Stefan M. Petters

20th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2014), IEEE. 15, Apr, 2014. Berlin, Germany.

Non-preemptive scheduling of Real-Time Software Transactional Memory CISTER-TR-140207
António Barros, Luis Miguel Pinho

the Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 2014). 25 to 28, Feb, 2014. Lubeck, Germany.

A Service-Oriented Architecture for Virtualizing Robots in Robot-as-a-Service Clouds CISTER-TR-140508
Anis Koubâa

the Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 2014). 25 to 28, Feb, 2014. Lubeck, Germany.

Time Criticality Challenge in the Presence of Parallelised Execution CISTER-TR-140105
Luis Miguel Pinho, Eduardo Quiñones, Marko Bertogna, Luca Benini, Jorge Pereira Carlos, Claudio Scordino, Michele Ramponi

2nd Workshop on High-performance and Real-time Embedded Systems (HiRES 2014). 20, Jan, 2014. Vienna, Austria.

Worst-Case Communication Delay Analysis for Many-Cores using a Limited Migrative Model CISTER-TR-141002
Borislav Nikolic, Patrick Meumeu Yomsi, Stefan M. Petters

20th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA 2014). 2014, Real-Time Systems Track. Chongqing, China.

Conference or Workshop Posters/Demos

Modelling Avionics Applications with CONCERTO CISTER-TR-141211
Andrea Baldovin, Alessandro Zovi, Eduardo Tovar, Geoffrey Nelissen, Tullio Vardanega

Demo in RTSS@Work 2014 Open Demo Session of RealTime Systems, IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2014). 2 to 5, Dec, 2014. Rome, Italy.

Another look at the pWCET estimation problem CISTER-TR-151101
Vincent Nélis, Patrick Meumeu Yomsi, Luis Miguel Pinho, Guillem Bernat

Poster presented in Work in Progress Session, IEEE Real-Time System Symposium, Work-in-progress session, 2014 (RTSS 2014). 2 to 5, Dec, 2014. Roma, Italy.

Resource Sharing Under a Server-based Semi Partitioned Scheduling Approach CISTER-TR-141011
Alexandre Esper, Eduardo Tovar

Poster presented in 22nd International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS 2014). 8 to 10, Oct, 2014. Versailles, France.

On Program Restructuring for Cluster-based Highly Parallel Embedded Architectures CISTER-TR-140908
Luis Miguel Pinho, Ismael Marín Carrión, Luis Lino Ferreira

Poster presented in INFORUM - Simpósio de Informática (INFORUM 2014). 4 to 5, Sep, 2014. Porto, Portugal.

Order statistics of exponential random variables with imperfect measurement and unknown Gaussian disturbance for resource allocation compression models CISTER-TR-150709
Ramiro Robles

Poster presented in UCL-Duke Workshop on Sensing and Analysis of High-Dimensional Data. 4 to 5, Sep, 2014. London, United Kingdom.

A Harmony of Sensors: Achieving Determinism in Multi-Application Sensor Networks CISTER-TR-140623
Vikram Gupta, Nuno Pereira, Eduardo Tovar, Raj Rajkumar

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Poster presented in 13th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN'14). 15 to 17, Apr, 2014, pp 299-300. Berlin, Germany.

Technical Reports

Mobile IoT: smart-HOP over RPL CISTER-TR-140709
Hossein Fotouhi, Daniel Moreira, Mário Alves

16, Jul, 2014.

Timing Analysis for DAG-based and GFP Scheduled Tasks CISTER-TR-181125
José Marinho, Stefan M. Petters

4, Jun, 2014.

Reliable and fast hand-offs in low-power wireless networks (extended paper) CISTER-TR-140205
Hossein Fotouhi, Mário Alves, Marco Zuniga, Anis Koubâa

14, Feb, 2014.

Priority Assignment and Application Mapping for Many-Cores Using a Limited Migrative Model CISTER-TR-140204
Borislav Nikolic, Konstantinos Bletsas, Stefan M. Petters

11, Feb, 2014.

Worst-Case Communication Delay Analysis for Many-Cores using a Limited Migrative Model CISTER-TR-140202
Borislav Nikolic, Patrick Meumeu Yomsi, Stefan M. Petters

6, Feb, 2014.

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