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BIRKHAUSER Architecture Postcards/Cartes Postales by FRANK O GEHRY
With their asymmetric, plastic, deconstructive forms, Frank O. Gehry's buildings carry his unmistakable signature. His innovative use of space and materials make his creations instantly recognisable throughout the world. These postcards capture the very essence of his work, including the following buildings: Gehry House, Santa Monica, California; Spiller House, Venice, California; Sirmai-Peterson Residence, Thousand Oaks, California; Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein; furniture design; Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis; office building, Prague; Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao; office building, DA1/4sseldorf. A Reconfigurable Processor for Forward Error Correction.- FPGA-Accelerated Deletion-Tolerant Coding for Reliable Distributed Storage.- LIRAC: Using Live Range Information to Optimize Memory Access.- Optimized Register Renaming Scheme for Stack-Based x86 Operations.- A Customized Cross-Bar for Data-Shuffling in Domain-Specific SIMD Processors.- Customized Placement for High Performance Embedded Processor Caches.- A Multiprocessor Cache for Massively Parallel SoC Architectures.- Improving Resource Discovery in the Arigatoni Overlay Network.- An Effective Multi-hop Broadcast in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network.- Functional Knowledge Exchange Within an Intelligent Distributed System.- Architecture for Collaborative Business Items.- Autonomic Management Architecture for Flexible Grid Services Deployment Based on Policies.- Variations and Evaluations of an Adaptive Accrual Failure Detector to Enable Self-healing Properties in Distributed Systems.- Self-organizing Software Components in Distributed Systems.- Toward Self-adaptive Embedded Systems: Multi-objective Hardware Evolution.- Measurement and Control of Self-organised Behaviour in Robot Swarms.- Autonomous Learning of Load and Traffic Patterns to Improve Cluster Utilization.- Parametric Architecture for Function Calculation Improvement.- Design Space Exploration of Media Processors: A Generic VLIW Architecture and a Parameterized Scheduler.- Modeling of Interconnection Networks in Massively Parallel Processor Architectures.- Invited Talk: Expanding Software Product Families: From Integration to Composition.