1. Conference On Computing Frontiers 2004: Ischia, Italy

• Dan C. Marinescu:
  Quantum parallelism and the exact simulation of physical systems. 1
  

Software Environments

• G. Rossi, E. Poleo:
  javaset: declarative programming in Java with sets. 2-11
  
• Takahiro Katagiri, Kenji Kise, Hiroki Honda, Toshitsugu Yuba:
  Effect of auto-tuning with user's knowledge for numerical software. 12-25
  

Special Session on NOMADS

• Miroslaw Malek:
  Introduction to NOMADS: networks of mobile adaptive dependable systems. 26-27
  
• Antonio Casimiro, Jörg Kaiser, Paulo Veríssimo:
  An architectural framework and a middleware for cooperating smart components. 28-39
  
• Edgar Nett, Stefan Schemmer:
  An architecture to support cooperating mobile embedded systems. 40-50
  
• Stefano Porcarelli, Felicita Di Giandomenico, Andrea Bondavalli, Paolo Lollini:
  Model-based evaluation of a radio resource management system for wireless networks. 51-59
  

Pervasive Computing

• Girma Berhe, Lionel Brunie, Jean-Marc Pierson:
  Modeling service-based multimedia content adaptation in pervasive computing. 60-69
  
• K. Kalapriya, S. K. Nandy, Deepti Srinivasan, R. Uma Maheshwari, V. Satish:
  A framework for resource discovery in pervasive computing for mobile aware task execution. 70-77
  
• Luca Negri, Domenico Barretta, William Fornaciari:
  Application-level power management in pervasive computing systems: a case study. 78-88
  

Quantum Computing

• Sándor Imre, Péter Abronits, Dániel Darabos:
  Quantum designer and network simulator. 89-95
  
• Mihai Udrescu, Lucian Prodan, Mircea Vladutiu:
  Using HDLs for describing quantum circuits: a framework for efficient quantum algorithm simulation. 96-110
  
• Philippe Jorrand, Marie Lalire:
  Toward a quantum process algebra. 111-119
  

Computational Models

• Marion G. Ceruti:
  States of matter, information organization and dimensions of expressiveness. 120-124
  
• Frédéric Gruau, Yves Lhuillier, Philippe Reitz, Olivier Temam:
  BLOB computing. 125-139
  
• E. V. Krishnamurthy, Venu K. Murthy, Vikram Krishnamurthy:
  Biologically inspired rule-based multiset programming paradigm for soft-computing. 140-149
  
• Liliana Cojocaru:
  Watson-Crick automata and PCFAS with two components: a computational power analogy. 150-161
  

Special Session on Memory Wall

• Sally A. McKee:
  Reflections on the memory wall. 162
  
• Michel Dubois:
  Fighting the memory wall with assisted execution. 168-180
  
• Martin Kämpe, Per Stenström, Michel Dubois:
  Self-correcting LRU replacement policies. 181-191
  
• Ben H. H. Juurlink, Pepijn J. de Langen:
  Dynamic techniques to reduce memory traffic in embedded systems. 192-201
  
• Antonis Papanikolaou, Miguel Miranda, Francky Catthoor:
  Overcoming the "Memory Wall" by improved system design exploration and a link to process technology options. 202-211
  
• Marco Galluzzi, Valentin Puente, Adrián Cristal, Ramón Beivide, José-Ángel Gregorio, Mateo Valero:
  A first glance at Kilo-instruction based multiprocessors. 212-221
  

Cache

• Keqiang Wu, Peng-fei Chuang, David J. Lilja:
  An active data-aware cache consistency protocol for highly-scalable data-shipping DBMS architectures. 222-234
  
• Pepijn J. de Langen, Ben H. H. Juurlink:
  Reducing traffic generated by conflict misses in caches. 235-239
  

Power Awareness

• Saurabh Chheda, Osman S. Unsal, Israel Koren, C. Mani Krishna, Csaba Andras Moritz:
  Combining compiler and runtime IPC predictions to reduce energy in next generation architectures. 240-254
  
• Christopher R. LaRosa, Mark W. Bailey:
  A docked-aware storage architecture for mobile computing. 255-262
  

Networks

• Gábor Németh:
  Knowledge-based generic intelligent network model. 263-267
  
• Iliyak Georgiev, Ivo I. Georgiev:
  An information-interconnectivity-based retrieval method for network attached storage. 268-275
  
• Matthias Kühnemann, Thomas Rauber, Gudula Rünger:
  Improving the execution time of global communication operations. 276-287
  
• Ambrus Wagner:
  Mobile agent: based module distribution in heterogeneous networks. 288-293
  

Clusters

• Micaela Spigarolo, Renzo Davoli:
  Berserkr: a virtual beowulf cluster for fast prototyping and teaching. 294-301
  
• Michal Kouril, Jerome L. Paul:
  A parallel backtracking framework (BkFr) for single and multiple clusters. 302-312
  

Applications

• Ben H. H. Juurlink:
  Approximating the optimal replacement algorithm. 313-319
  
• M. Francia, E. Panizzi, A. Petricola, G. Visconti:
  Parallel simulation of orography influence on large-scale atmosphere motion on APEmille. 320-325
  
• Marco Bera, Giovanni Danese, Francesco Leporati, Alvaro Spelgatti:
  A new technique to calculate dipolar energy and its implementation onto an application specific processor. 326-334
  
• Yong-Joon Park, Gyungho Lee:
  Repairing return address stack for buffer overflow protection. 335-342
  

Pipelined Architectures

• Nozar Tabrizi, Nader Bagherzadeh, Amir Hosein Kamalizad, Haitao Du:
  MaRS: a macro-pipelined reconfigurable system. 343-349
  
• T. Feng, Byoungjae Jin, J. Wang, Nohpill Park, Yong-Bin Kim, Fabrizio Lombardi:
  Fault tolerant clockless wave pipeline design. 350-356
  

Special Session on Reconfigurable Computing

• Reiner W. Hartenstein:
  The digital divide of computing. 357-362
  
• Ingrid Verbauwhede, Patrick Schaumont:
  The happy marriage of architecture and application in next-generation reconfigurable systems. 363-376
  
• Manfred Glesner, Thomas Hollstein, Leandro Soares Indrusiak, Peter Zipf, Thilo Pionteck, Mihail Petrov, Heiko Zimmer, Tudor Murgan:
  Reconfigurable platforms for ubiquitous computing. 377-389
  
• Ricardo Reis, Fernanda Lima Kastensmidt, José Luís Almada Güntzel:
  Physical design methodologies for performance predictability and manufacturability. 390-397
  
• Dirk Koch, Jürgen Teich:
  Platform-independent methodology for partial reconfiguration. 398-403
  
• Tudor Murgan, Mihail Petrov, Mateusz Majer, Peter Zipf, Manfred Glesner, Ulrich Heinkel, Jörg Pleickhardt, Bernd Bleisteiner:
  Adaptive architectures for an OTN processor: reducing design costs through reconfigurability and multiprocessing. 404-418
  
• Fernanda Lima Kastensmidt, Gustavo Neuberger, Luigi Carro, Ricardo Reis:
  Designing and testing fault-tolerant techniques for SRAM-based FPGAs. 419-432
  

Processors

• Francisco J. Cazorla, Peter M. W. Knijnenburg, Rizos Sakellariou, Enrique Fernández, Alex Ramírez, Mateo Valero:
  Predictable performance in SMT processors. 433-443
  
• Cecilia Metra, T. M. Mak, Martin Omaña:
  Fault secureness need for next generation high performance microprocessor design for testability structures. 444-450
  
• X. H. Xu, C. T. Clarke, S. R. Jones:
  High performance code compression architecture for the embedded ARM/THUMB processor. 451-456
  
• Rahul Nagpal, Y. N. Srikant:
  Integrated temporal and spatial scheduling for extended operand clustered VLIW processors. 457-470
  

Accelerators

• Peter Groen, Panu Hämäläinen, Ben H. H. Juurlink, Timo Hämäläinen:
  Accelerating the secure remote password protocol using reconfigurable hardware. 471-480
  
• Atsushi Kosaka, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Hiroyuki Okuhata, Takao Onoye, Isao Shirakawa:
  SoC design of Ogg Vorbis decoder using embedded processor. 481-487
  

Architectures

• Predrag T. Tosic:
  A perspective on the future of massively parallel computing: fine-grain vs. coarse-grain parallel models comparison & contrast. 488-502
  
• Teng Wang, Zhenghua Qi, Csaba Andras Moritz:
  Opportunities and challenges in application-tuned circuits and architectures based on nanodevices. 503-511